Deepen your icon painting practice with the immersive online course recordings guided by Basia Mindewicz. Get lifetime access to all 10 sessions, working through them at your own pace you’ll create a beautiful icon of St George, developing your skills in traditional icon painting techniques while exploring a more personal, spiritual approach to sacred art.
Suitable for those with previous painting or iconography experience.
£320.00
This course is ideal for those who have painted at least one icon or have prior experience in painting. If you’re looking to develop your technique while exploring a more expressive, spiritual approach to iconography, this course will support and inspire you.
You can either use the materials that you already have. Or acquire materials from the list below. Please contact us if you need any advice.
You won’t need all the materials for your first session as it will be an introduction. Please contact us if you want to sign up but not sure if you manage to get all materials before the start of the course.
This beautiful icon is said to be from the mid-13th Century and the Greek inscriptions confirm it to be St George, a Christian crusader who was likely to have been an officer in the Roman army. In the icon, St George is seen on the journey to return a small boy to his home across the Aegean Sea after rescuing him from his captors. St George is well known for being depicted slaying a dragon but this imagery first appeared around 500 years after his death!
Basia Mindewicz is a highly respected icon painter and contemporary artist with extensive experience in both traditional and modern styles. A graduate of the College of Iconography in Poland, Basia has led numerous icon painting courses and workshops across the UK and internationally. She is the founder of the Edinburgh School of Icon Painting, and her work blends ancient techniques with personal, contemporary depictions of human spirituality and truth.
Stephen Milne (verified owner) –
I recently completed this lovely course and enjoyed it so much both because I learned great deal as a beginner and because the icon of Saint George and the Youth is so fun and unusual; the story behind it is also fascinating. Even though the icon is quite complex with lots of details, Basia took us through all of the stages carefully so that we could paint each part of the icon successfully with her guidance. I particularly enjoyed working on the faces again even though they are quite small as well as the details of the saint’s colourful clothing. The horse is quite wonderful to paint and the icon as a whole has so much movement. It was new to me to paint the horse, clothing and the mountains so lots of opportunity to try new things which is always rewarding even if challenging at times (I lost part of the saint’s face and of the background at one point!). But even the mistakes provided opportunities to learn. Thank you again Basia for such an enjoyable and interesting course.