about HEXÆMERON

HEXÆMERON is a 501c(3) non-profit organization which takes its name from the Greek term that signifies the six days of creation, as described in the opening chapters of Genesis. St. Basil the Great, writing in the fourth century about these six days, developed a text of nine treatises called The Hexaemeron, a commentary on the biblical revelation expressed in successive measures of plenitude:

"And God said, let there be..."

In keeping with its name, HEXÆMERON offers the Six Days of Creation Icon-painting Workshops for the beginner and the more experienced, who desire to learn the ancient technique of icon painting in the egg-tempera medium, according to Orthodox Church tradition and ethos.

Master Iconographer Xenia Pokrovsky and her fellow iconographers lead students through the entire process of icon-painting, from preparing a gesso board to completion of an icon, including instruction on how to create pigments from stones, define the image with assiste gold lights, gild prescribed areas, calligraph inscriptions, and apply olifa varnishing.