Sacred Art
Workshop
I’m teaching the second of three evening classes on sacred art and traditional Italian Renaissance painting techniques (I dug up my recipes from Firenze) tonight in Big Bend for a small group. I get into folk and formalism, icon techniques, altar and ritual, retablos, space and conceptual approaches.
We will also learn about architecture and painting light and shadow. What a pleasure to share with this group, in addition, some of my stories about climbing the rock fortress Sigiriya, and introducing the ancient poetry written about its water gardens.
We can go nearly anywhere with this topic as a starting point, but what excites me the most is being one stitch in a thread of 500 years of knowledge transfer.
Thank you immensely to St. James’ Episcopal Church for the space and time to offer this, and for your trust.
