Learn traditional art skills and make a beautiful Christmas gift.

In this workshop, you will make Christmas cards or notebook covers with Christmas tree design or a Christian Geometric Cross design, inspired by Georgian, Armenian, Celtic and Viking designs.

You will draw traditional Christmas tree or Cross design and learn different manuscript gilding techniques with 23.5 carat gold leaf on Pergamenata manuscript paper or on a notebook cover. You will also decorate the cards/books with self-made paints made with natural pigments. This is good exercise for future manuscript or gilding work.

You will go home with a beautiful Christmas card or notebook cover and have learned traditional skills and artwork.

What do I need to bring with me?

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Your Course Leader

Hanna Ward is a prize winning Diploma Iconographer and Illuminated Manuscript painter, Design Consultant with BA(Hons) in Interior Architecture and MA in Traditional Sacred Arts at Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts London, University of Wales.

Hanna paints commission icons for churches, private chapels and collectors all around the world. She also teaches iconography, gilding, illuminated manuscript painting, folk art, sacred geometry in Caterham, Surrey and London and various eyes in UK and abroad in Finland, Palestine and Greece.

Hanna is originally from Finland, but has lived, studied and worked in England for forty years. She is an interior architect by profession and now researches church architecture and sacred structures. Hanna teaches weekly classes and organises workshops and lectures about the history and the meaning of icons. Hanna's work has featured in icon exhibitions worldwide and since 2014 she had many solo exhibitions.