Teachers & courses

IRINA BRADLEY

A dear friend and regular teachers in our short course program at the Abbey. Irina was awarded her doctorate by the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts in 2015. Icon painter & fine artist with a passion for contemporary art. Visiting tutor for MA at the King’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts. Academic interests: Early Christianity and Iconography. Irina also teaches icon painting at her Buckinghamshire studio. Irina’s icons are in churches, private chapels and collections all over the world.

Aidan Hart

Aidan Hart, the UK’s leading Iconographer, Author and Director of The Kings Foundation School of Traditional Arts in London. Aidan is a member of the Greek Orthodox Church and works from his studio in Shrewsbury, Aidan has been a full-time liturgical artist for over thirty-five years. His passion is to create Liturgical Art and church interiors that reflect something of the beauty of life in Christ, we are very fortunate to have Aidan as friend and colleague of our studio.

Silouan

Silouan Hartley & his wife Christine are based in Telford. He has been the leading maker of Icon Boards and Liturgical Art in wood and Ecclesiastical furniture for over 35 years. His Icon boards can be found all over the world, including in the Vatican.

We are delighted to have his HANDSKILL teaching workshops with us as one of our regular fixtures.

Amanda de Pulford

Amanda de Pulford is a painter and iconographer based in Folkestone in Kent. Amanda started full time training with Irina Gorbounova-Lomax in Brussels in 2011 & has taught for 25 years. In the early 2023 she was asked by Fr. Peter Burns if she would consider starting a Pilot for a possible four year diploma in Iconographic technique based on the model of the Brussels International Iconography School where she originally trained. Amanda has just successfully delivered the first of two pilot terms. We have been delighted to work with her.

Chichester Workshop

The Chichester Workshop is a centre for liturgical art, currently located in South Harting, north of Chichester and is closely linked with Chichester Cathedral. Alongside the Workshop’s day-to-day work undertaking commissions across a broad range of traditional media, they offer an education programme that includes both practical artistic training and theological engagement with the principles of Christian iconography. We are delighted to count the team there (Aidan Hart, Martin Earle, James Blackstone) amongst our friends and colleagues.

St Dunstan icons

St Dunstan Icons is the name used for the work of Iconographer, Mosaicist and Liturgical artist The Rev Dr. Jim Blackstone. Jim studied under Aidan Hart. Prior to working as an iconographer, Jim worked in a residential social setting with emotionally and behaviourally challenged children; as a portrait painter; in a contemplative monastic community; as a teacher in London secondary schools; in university lay chaplaincy; and as an ordained minister in the Church of England. We are delighted that Jim will be doing the annual St Bede Lecture at The Benedictine Institute & Institutum Liturgicum in July, here at Ealing Abbey.

Martin Earle

Martin is a Catholic artist specialising in works for churches and the liturgy. As well as painting in egg tempera, he carves in wood and stone. He also designs and creates mosaics. Working firmly within the venerable traditions of Christian iconography, his aim is to profess that ‘The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory’. Martin advises our directors on the provision of elements and materials for specialist courses.

Peter Murphy

Peter Murphy Born 1959 in Leeds, moved to Liverpool and later Durham. Educated at Jacob Kramer College of Art and the University of East London. Trained with iconographer Guillem Ramos Poqui in London. Peter uses traditional techniques from medieval religious painting, including egg tempera paint and gold leaf. He was Vice Chairman of the Society of Tempera Painters and is a member of The British Association of Iconographers for whom he runs workshops.

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