Iconography Retreat

Event Details

Icons offer us spiritual nourishment, giving us the opportunity to learn about ourselves and our relationship with God.  This icon retreat will introduce participants into the ancient tradition of icon writing.  During this five-day retreat through meditation, practise and contemplation you will learn the techniques of writing an icon. Using a gesso wood panel board, egg tempera, natural pigment, bole and gilding with 24 kt gold leaf, you will be writing the icon "Mother of Tenderness". Participants will bring brushes. All other supplies are included.  

FACILITATOR: GISELE BAUCHE

After receiving her degrees in Theology, Education and studies in art Gisele combined her interest in Theology and Art by giving expression to her spirituality through writing Icons and art.  Iconography has profoundly influenced her life offering a sacred place for prayer, contemplation and spiritual nourishment.

She studied iconography under Marianna Savryn, Vera Senchuk, Dimitri Andreyev and Father Nazari Paltaike.   Gisele has facilitated retreats in Iconography for over twenty years and as a Saskatoon based iconographer she maintains a private studio and facilitates in on-going icon retreats  in collaboration with Anna Mycyk.  Gisele’s artwork hangs in churches and institutions across western Canada. Her work is featured in Augsburg Fortress Publications and Novalis Publications. She is the author of the book Giving Glory to God: Reflections of an Artist.

REGISTRATION

Maximum 8 participants. Registration closes May 1st. Participants to bring their own brushes.

Commuter ........................... $795
(includes Monday-Friday lunch, and supplies)

Live-In ................................ $1195
(includes four-night stay and all meals)

To stay additional nights or request a suite (at an additional cost of $84), please contact us.

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