Elenis Icons launched Icon Adventures in 2010, offering Icon Painting holidays in Sinai, Egypt.

  SACRED ART • HOLY PLACES • DESERT • MOUNTAIN • SEA

tel: 020 8452 7660
info@iconadventures.co.uk

ICON PAINTING HOLIDAY, SINAI, EGYPT

SPRING 2011: THURSDAY 10th - SATURDAY19th MARCH
AUTUMN 2011: TUESDAY 8 - THURS 17 NOVEMBER

Icon Adventures is the only icon painting holiday based in Sinai.

This unique art holiday offers not only specialist tuition for the beginner but an unforgettable contemplative and cultural experience with a little desert adventure too. This is for anyone who wants to paint icons, visit the Holy Monastery of St. Catherine’s, see the spectacular sunrise from the summit of Mount Sinai and experience the unforgettable sacred landscape of the Southern Sinai desert.

• Expert Icon Painting Tuition and Demonstrations
• Beautiful Red Sea Coast Hotel and Studio
• Art historical visit to St. Catherine’s Monastery and Icon Collection (overnight stay)
• Optional Exclusive ascent of Mount Sinai
• Bedouin mediated cultural experiences
• Ethical tourism supporting Bedouin Businesses and Craft Co-operatives
• Mountain, Desert and Coral Reef adventures

All welcome – especially singles
Optional Yoga, Snorkelling, Camel Trekking and Massage.
Please visit www.iconadventures.co.uk for further information, prices, dates and booking.

Icon Painting Weekend Retreat in Wales
St Michael's Theological College, Llandaff, Cardiff
FRIDAY 13TH - SUNDAY 15TH MAY, 2011

Now in its third year, the Icon Writing Weekend hosted by St Michael's is open to all but book early as the group size is strictly limited. This short course is an introduction to icons as a devotional art form, a theological tool, a collectible commodity and as an art practice. It is intended for complete beginners as well as those who may be more familiar with icons and their production. We aim to write a small icon using the traditional techniques and materials (gessoed panels, gold leaf, egg tempera).

All materials are included and as much individual guidance as possible is given, along with demonstrations at every stage. The weekend is hard work and very enjoyable as well as prayerful. We benefit from the use of the lovely chapel at St Michael's, the library and Llandaff Cathedral nearby. Two nights accomodation in the Halls of Residence and full board is included. St Michael's is easily reached by train to Cardiff and a short taxi/bus ride to Llandaff or by car. Parking may be available upon request.

Icon Painting Retreat, St. Michael's Theological College, Llandaff, Cardiff. Please contact Helen or Sheryl Williams-Gascoigne at St Michael's College for more information or to reserve a place:
sw@stmichaels.ac.uk
Tel 02920 563 379

For more info about St Michael's college:
http://www.stmichaels.ac.uk/

Jan 2009: Exhibitor at Courtauld Alumni Association Exhibition, The Arts Club, Mayfair, London

Feb 2009: Guest speaker at Woodard School Chaplain’s Conference, Cathedral School, Llandaff, Cardiff. Eucharist Service for the presentation of two icons commissioned from Helen for the school chapel.

May 2009: Icon Painting Retreat, St. Michael's Theological College, Llandaff, Cardiff.

July 2009: Helen has recently completed an icon of the Mother of God of Korsun and written a reflective piece about the icon, both of which are to be published in the forthcoming book (At Home with the Mother of God, Random House 2010) by the well-known American writer Judith Dupré.

Oct 2009: Helen has recently been appointed Icon Specialist at MacDougall's, the Russian art auction house, St. James, London ahead of their forthcoming sale of Russian icons, December 2nd 2009.
www.macdougallauction.com

May 2010: Icon Painting Retreat, St. Michael's Theological College, Llandaff, Cardiff. 16 budding iconographers wrote an icon of St Seraphim of Sarov after Fr Gregory Kroug's prototype of this wonderful Russian saint, spritual father and healer. The icons were blessed in the chapel at St Michael's in a eucharistic service offered by the students.