Due to Covid related withdrawals, some places have become available on the September 13-17 icon workshop at beautiful Walcot Hall, Lydbury North, Shropshire. Click the link below for information and for the registration forms. We shall be painting a full figure of the Archangel Michael. Cost for the course itself and lunches is £444. Accommodation in apartments at Walcot is an extra £220.
Course information and registration forms:
September 14-18, 2021, download PDF
I have almost finished the text for a new book on the history and meaning of the fourteen Great Festal icons. This promises to be the most comprehensive book on the subject yet published in English, with at least thirty pages dedicated to each feast and amply illustrated. Please drop me an email if you wish to be notified when it is published at mail@aidanharticons.com.
The cancelled 2020 trip to St Catherine’s, Mount Sinai has been rescheduled to 1-8 April 2022. Book soon! I shall be the speaking guide for this trip to one of the great icon centres of the world. For details see Icons at St Catherine – Wind Sand & Stars Icons at St Catherine.
A discussion about contemporary iconography among the British iconographers Ian Knowles, Stéphane René, Peter Murphy and Aidan Hart
The discussion continues…
The BBC World Service have broadcast a 30 minute interview of Aidan by Phil Pegum, “In the Studio: Creating an Icon”. It can be listened to at any time on their website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz1zm
An icon containing relics of six saints from the Kiev Pechersk Lavra.
Blessed James the Deacon (d. 671). James was a deacon from Rome who laboured with St Paulinus in the mission in Northumbria, England.
