Basia Mindewicz is a Polish artist trained in ancient iconography techniques and founder of the Edinburgh School of Icon Painting. Currently she is based in Edinburgh where she teaches online and in-person classes and workshops in contemporary icon painting using traditional techniques such as egg tempera and gilding. She received her education at The Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education, and Policealne Studium Ikonograficzne in Bielsk Podlaski, Poland.

During her time in Poland she facilitated workshops for Droga Ikony (English via Google Translate) - a well-known icon painting workshop, and Studium Chrzescijanskiego Wschodu (School of Eastern Christianity). She moved to Edinburgh in 2010 and founded the Edinburgh School of Icon Painting in September 2013. Since then, it has been shaping and developing to offer both in-person classes at their premises in St Margaret's House, and online classes that are live or recorded sessions for people to follow at their own pace. Her mission with the school is to make icon painting and art in general more accessible to people, regardless of their experience level and religious beliefs/non-beliefs. She has also organised and co-organised workshops around the UK and Europe such as: a retreat at Craig Lodge Family House of Prayer, a 3-day workshop at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, the "Art of Icon. Art of Life" retreat at Hacienda Los Olivos in Spain, and a workshop at The Bield Retreat House near Perth, Scotland.

In her personal practice for many years, she has been mainly working in a very traditional style learning the language of iconography. After arriving in Edinburgh, she began exploring other "languages", searching for more personal and contemporary ways of depicting a parallel, spiritual reality. This included combining her love for animals with traditional icon writing techniques to create modern, yet reverent, animal portraits. Her artistic development reveals the truth about who we are and what we need to become whole.