ICON PANEL MAKERS

United Kingdom:

• Dylan Hartley. Icon Boards Shop Email: dylan@dylanhartley.com
  

  A qualified cabinet-maker, Dylan Hartley makes high quality icon panels using tulipwood, with oak for the braces which are dovetailed and tapered in the traditional way to prevent warping. The panels are hollowed to 3mm, or to whatever depth is requested. They can be bought gessoed or ungessoed. Dylan Hartley Ltd. stock a wide range of sizes and also make to order. Flat birch plywood panels are also available. For more information and to purchase see Dylan Hartley Ltd

• Dylan also runs icon board making and gessoing courses in his workshop in the beautiful Iron Bridge Gorge. See the ‘Workshops’ page for more information.

Europe:

• Icone & Legno. www.iconelegno.it An Italian supplier of ready-made and bespoke panels, which come gessoed and sanded. Via Trevisit, 46, Cordenons, Italy. Phone: +39 (0)434 930418, Email: renato.icone@gmail.com

America:

• Icon Boards. www.iconboards.com Supplies ready-made panels in a wide range of sizes, as well as bespoke panels. Stanislav Solovyev, 206 Jamaica Blvd, Endicot, NY-13760, U.S.A. Phone/Fax (607)754677.
• Religious Supply. www.religious-supply.com This company imports boards made in Pskov monastery in Russia. Address:18 Hunter Lane, Ithaca NY 14850, U.S.A. Phone: 607 539-7940, Email: info@religious-supply.com

ICON MATERIALS SUPPLIERS

United Kingdom:

• L. Cornelissen and Son Ltd., 105 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3RY. Phone 0207 6361045. www.cornelissen.com
• AP Fitzpatrick, 142 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, London E1 5QJ. Phone 0207 7900884. www.apfitzpatrick.co.uk
• Stuart R. Stevenson, 68 Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1M 5QA. Phone 0207 2531693. www.stuartstevenson.co.uk
• Wright’s of Lymm, Warrington Lane, Lymm, Cheshire, WA13 OSA. Phone 01925 752226. www.stonehouses.co.uk For gold leaf and gilding tools.
• Rosemary and Co. Makers of fine artists’ brushes. PO Box 372, Keighley, West Yorkshire, BD20 6WZ, U.K. Phone 01535 600090 www.rosemaryandco.com
• The Gilder’s Warehouse Ltd., 5 Woodside Commercial estate, Thornwood, Epping, Essex, CM16 6LJ. Phone 01992 570453.

America:

• Natural Pigments. www.naturalpigments.com Call Toll Free within USA: 1-888-361-5900
• Pandora. www.pandora-store.com Stanislav Solovyev, 206 Jamaica Blvd. Endicott, NY-13760, US Phone/Fax (607)7546774 or (607)757-2577

OTHER PIGMENT PRODUCERS

• Attila Gazo of Master Pigments www.masterpigments.com, produces azurite, malachite, orpiment, realgar, volkonskoite, cinnabar and more recently, lapis lazuli both in a simple ground powder form, but also the superior extraction process.

FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME COURSES IN ICONOGRAPHY AND RELATED LITURGICAL ARTS

• Three year part-time Certificate in Icon Painting, run by The Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts, London. This is currently taught by Aidan Hart in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, U.K.. Lessons are three whole days a month, seven months each year. For further information click here. To be informed when applications open (early 2022), please email Aidan Hart at mail@aidanharticons.com.
• Liturgical Icons. EastXWest Online Icon Course: Sister Theovouli, an Orthodox nun from the U.K., runs an online course, designed not just for budding iconographers but also for ‘priests, church architects, catechists and art teachers, and to all those for whom art is part of their spiritual journey’. www.exw-onlineiconcourse.org