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A Life of Icons – Interview with Anna Gouriev

By Jonathan Pageau on September 21, 2020
A Life of Icons - Interview with Anna Gouriev

Anna Pokrovsky Gouriev is a professional iconographer working in the United States. Originally from Russia, she is the daughter of Ksenia Pokrovsky who was one of the instrumental voices for the rediscovery of traditional iconography in the 20th century. Jonathan Pageau teaches with her at the Hexaemeron School of Ecclesial Arts, and it is in […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged Anna Gouriev, Hexaemeron, icon painting, iconography, Jonathan Pageau, Ksenia Pokrovsky October 14, 2020

A North American Master of Sacred Arts Program

By Jonathan Pageau on March 14, 2017
A North American Master of Sacred Arts Program

The first person to ever write about my carvings was David Clayton, who at the time was blogging for New Liturgical Movement.  Since then David and I have kept in contact as he wrote his first book and has now gone on to start the first Master’s Degree of Sacred Art program in North America. This […]

Posted in News | Tagged David Clayton, Hexaemeron, iconography, master of sacred arts, NLM, pontifex, teaching June 5, 2017

6 Days of Icon Carving

By Jonathan Pageau on November 5, 2013
6 Days of Icon Carving

Last month I had the opportunity to give my first icon carving training for Hexaemeron.  Hexaemeron is a travelling liturgical arts school based on the work and method of Ksenia Pokrovsky of recent memory.  It was an honor to join the Hexaemeron team and to have a chance of working with a very dedicated group of […]

Posted in Iconography, News | Tagged carved, Carving, Hexaemeron, Icon, iconography, Jonathan Pageau, linden, Pageau Carvings, pantocrator, steatite November 5, 2013

Learning Icon Carving with Hexaemeron

By Jonathan Pageau on May 24, 2013
Learning Icon Carving with Hexaemeron

Icon carving is an art which has been experiencing a great renewal in Orthodoxy all across the world.  In the last 15 years we have seen several amazing icon carvers appear, with Aidan Hart in England, the Azbuhanov couple in Russia.  The art of miniature carving has also been  finding  a quality it had lost […]

Posted in Iconography, News | Tagged Carving, Hexaemeron, icon carving, iconography, Jonathan Pageau, Mary Lowell, steatite, stone, training, wood, workshop July 14, 2014

Painting an Icon; the Hexaemeron Workshop

By Mary Lowell on August 21, 2012
Painting an Icon; the Hexaemeron Workshop

I am not an icon writer nor am I an icon painter, if it makes a difference. I am the founder and administrator of the non-profit organization Hexaemeron which sponsors courses in iconography. As such, I once attempted to make a St. Paul icon to familiarize myself with the process so that I could write […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged Anna Gouriev, art, Byzantine Iconography, Hexaemeron, iconography, Ksenia Pokrovsky, Marek Czarnecki, Mary Lowell, Orthodox Church, reverse perspective, workshop July 10, 2014
 

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