I am a Finnish-born British Iconographer who is based in Surrey and London. I teach traditional Byzantine icon-painting in egg tempera and natural and semi-precious stones to beginners and more experienced painters, using both Greek and Russian techniques.

My initial training was through the four-year iconography and fresco course run by the British Master, Aidan Hart, resulting in a diploma in the Liturgical Arts. Following the completion of my MA in Sacred Art at the King's Foundation School of Traditional Arts (London), I received a prize in traditional Byzantine iconography. Since completing my formal studies, I have learned alongside numerous masters in Greece, Russia, Finland and Romania, as well as the UK. Over the years I have received numerous commissions from churches, private chapels and private collectors.

Alongside my practice as an iconographer, I am a qualified interior architect with a BA from Manchester. This career has led me to traveling and researching Byzantine church architecture in the Orthodox countries.

I have been painting and teaching drawing, iconography and illuminated manuscript painting and Sacred Geometry courses for fifteen years.

At present, I teach iconography at the King's Foundation School of Traditional Arts, as well as in Southwark Cathedral, Worth Abbey and my home studio in Caterham. My workshops also take me further afield: to Lesvos Island (Greece), Valamo Monastery (Finland), the Bethlehem Icon School (Palestine) and the Flores del Camino Retreat Centre on the famous Camino Pilgrimage Way to the shrine of Santiago de Compostela (Spain).

Contact: Hannalward@hotmail.com
Courses: Hanna@hannawardicons.com Website: https://hannawardicons.com Phone: +44 7518341288