... and courses.

Our newest contributor to this issue of A&C, Deborah Lewer (see p. 9) is also teaching a residential course, Ways of Seeing: Art and Faith, at the wonderful Gladstone's Library near Chester. This course will explore some great (and some less great) art from the Middle Ages to the present and use seeing as a means to thinking--about faith, about creativity, about politics and identity, about the rich life of the imagination and about God.

Visit www.gladstoneslibrary.org, call the library on 01244 532350 or email enquiries@gladlib.org.

Iconographers-muralists Philip Davydov and Olga Shalamova of the St Petersburg Sacred Murals will lead an icon-writing studio 16-20 May at the Parish Centre, Abingdon-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. The five-day course for beginners and practicing iconographers will focus on the face of Christ-'Painting the Face of the Invisible God'. For more information and registration go to www.sthelens-abingdon.org.uk 'The Hope within Us', or ring 01235 520144. The course will combine technical instruction with supporting theory and theology.