Course program
Tuesday 24.3.
The course price includes accommodation on Tuesday afternoon. Any meals at that time will be paid for at the Trapesa restaurant at normal prices. The Trapesa buffet is available until 2 pm.
Wednesday 25.3. Feast of the Epiphany
(07.30 Breakfast)
09.00 IX hour. Hour of the hour, great evening service and the liturgy of John Chrysostom.
10.30 Opening and introduction to the art retreat.
11.00 Introduction to the monastery's main church. Juha Riikonen.
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Introduction to materials and intuitive painting.
Wet on wet - a demonstration of watercolor technique.
Starting the painting process.
Primary colors, intermediate colors and mixing colors.
The importance of silence in the painting process and surrendering to it, releasing from the process.
15.00 Break. Possibility of coffee at your own expense.
16.15 Free painting in silence and personal guidance.
18.00 Small post-vespers service and evening prayers
20.00 Evening meal.
Thursday 26.3.
06.00 Midnight and morning service. I fasting hour.
07.30- Breakfast
09.00 What is Orthodox fasting? What is hesychasm? Juha Riikonen.
10.00 Drawing a line as a bridge to silence. Painting from silence. Listening to inner impulses. Free painting in silence and personal guidance.
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Perceiving form, strengthening inner vision. Free painting in silence and personal guidance.
15.00 Break. Possibility for coffee at your own expense.
15.30 Free painting in silence and personal guidance.
18.00 IX Lent, moment and evening service. Great post-vespers service.
20.00 Evening meal.
Friday 27.3.
7.30- Breakfast
06.00 Midnight and morning service. First fasting moment.
09.00 Holiness and saints. Juha Riikonen.
10.00 Internal and external rhythm, creating harmony. The importance of choosing a painting format. Free painting in silence and personal guidance.
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Light and shadow in painting and the painting process. Safety and trust in the shadow, the miracle of light. Free painting and personal guidance
15.00 Break.
15.30 Free painting in silence and personal guidance.
18.00 The course of the church year. Juha Riikonen.
10.00 Examining a painting and making choices in the painting process. Clarifying the essence of the painting. Free painting in silence and personal guidance.
12.00 Prayer service.
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Free painting in silence and personal guidance.
15.30 Break
16.00 Free painting in silence and personal guidance.
18.00 Vigil, with blessing of the rosary.
20.00 Evening meal.
Palm Sunday 29.3.
(7.30- Breakfast)
9.00
