edinburgh school of icon painting
Our school supports students in developing creative confidence and finding
courage through a range of icon painting courses and workshops open to students
at all levels.
Edinburgh School of Icon Painting was founded in September 2013. It is a small
school based in the artist hub St. Margaret's House. The school mission is to
teach icon painting (writing) to people of all different backgrounds but at the
same time maintaining the ethos and essence of it's spirituality. Introducing
this unique form of art to students of the school I introduce a way of
practising art which is different the other forms of art and it is said to be
more then just art.
Students learn egg tempera technique which has been used in art for centuries
and it is one of the most lasting painting techniques. There are still
reasonably well preserved icons from VI Century.
Egg tempera involves preparing own paints using egg yolk and dry pigments.
Through the whole process of work we try to limit synthetic materials. Using
organic materials helps to develop a connection with nature and in consequence
with the Divine.
Basia Mindewicz - founder and teacher. Born in 1978.
Graduated from The Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education, MA and
College of Iconography (Policealne Studium Ikonograficzne) in Bielsk Podlaski in
2008.
She has been working for a major icon painting workshops in Poland. Organized
many private workshops and residential courses.
Workshops in Poland:
Droga Ikony (The way of Icon) http://www.drogaikony.org.pl/
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Studium Chrzescijanskiego Wschodu (School of Eastern Christianity)
Workshops organized or co-organized by other organizations in UK
Retreat at Craig Lodge Family House of Prayer, may 2015.
3 day workshop at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, march 2016
''Art of Icon. Art of life'' retreat at Hacienda Los Olivos in Spain, may
2016. http://www.haciendalosolivos.org/
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Member of British Association of Iconographers.
She has taken part in many group exhibitions in Poland and Scotland. She curated
few.
Most important shows:
"Icon Today" Contemporary Icon (Ikona Dzis, Wystawa Ikon Wspolczesnych),
Exhibition was a part of the Conference under the same title 6.06-31.07.2008 at
the Monastery of Dominicans in Warsaw, Poland
"Oblicza Ikony" Ukrainian and Polish Contemporary Icon, The Museum Of South
Podlasie in Biala Podlaska, Poland, 11.09-30.11.2011
''The Sacred Face'', March 2014, as a part of MESP Festival. Edinburgh. Curated.
''Doorways to the Divine'', January 2015. St. Margaret's House. Edinburgh.
Curated.
''Artist as a Seer in a quantum age'', march 2015. MESP Festival. Summer Hall.
Edinburgh. Curated.
