Liturgical arts
Everywhere you see love, everywhere you breathe the fragrance of love. Our God is the God of love. His kingdom is the kingdom of love.
St. John of Kronstadt
Festival of Orthodox Arts
Friday 25th & Saturday 26th October 2024
The festival features work from over 15 artists. Do come and meet the artists and see their work, which includes icons, mosaics, paintings, stained glass, ceramics, sculpture, woodcuts and photography.
Events include a talk by icon painter Aidan Hart and a conversation organised in partnership with the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies (IOCS), with Aidan Hart, Dr Andrew Nosal and Dr Elizabeth Theokritoff. There will be concerts by Emma Hetherington and the Mosaic Choir and children’s workshops.
Café proceeds and 20% of art sales will be donated to Genesis Trust, the local charity working with homeless and vulnerable people in the Bath Area.
Friday 25th October
10am: Exhibition opens
Artwork, crafts, music and books for sale throughout the festival. 20% of all sales will be donated to The Genesis Trust.
10am - 5pm: cafe open for refreshments
5pm: Vespers
7.30pm: Light beyond the Veil – Emma Hetherington
A candle-lit concert of original pilgrim songs written and performed by Emma Hetherington with Rebecca Vučetić.
Saturday 26th October
10am: Exhibition opens
10am - 5pm: cafe open for refreshments
10.30am: From Genesis to Jerusalem – Aidan Hart
A talk about a new icon on the alpha and omega of creation.
11.30am: coffee break
12pm-1pm: A New Icon of Creation with IOCS
A conversation with Dr. Andrew Nosal (Point Loma Nazarene University), and Aidan Hart on depicting an evolving cosmos as creation transfigured by Christ. Moderated by Dr Elizabeth Theokritoff (Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge).
12pm-1pm: Children’s workshop in the Hall
3pm: A Musical Adventure – Mosaic Choir
Folk songs and liturgical music from around the world – preceded by a short talk by Hilary Long from The Genesis Trust
5pm: Vespers
Sunday 27th October
11am: Divine Liturgy - everyone is welcome!
Followed by an ‘everyone bring’ lunch
Tamara Penwell
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14).
I have been practising iconography for over thirty years. The aim in each icon is to testify to the Incarnation of God the Word and to the sanctity of the redeemed Creation.
In the Orthodox Church the icons bear witness to the reality of God’s presence with us in the mystery of faith. The icons are not just human pictures or visual aids to contemplation and prayer. They are the witnesses of the presence of the Kingdom of God to us, and so of our own presence to the Kingdom of God in the Church.
TamaraKaren Bates
Karen makes ceramic creations which feature the distinct and ancient Coptic style of Christian imagery. Her work was fired at a local potter supplier until the pandemic.
Emma Hetherington
Brought up in the Parish and former choir director, Emma is an accomplished musician and composer. Some of her work can be heard through the following links.