January 4:        How did icons emerge, when and why?

February 1:     What are the different styles we find in an icon and why? Are there major differences or are they basically one style with a few variations?

March 1:  Comparing Giotto and Panselimos, two 13th century liturgical artists of the east and west, in the light of St Francis of Assisi and St Gregory Palamas. Icons of the Cross, how they developed, what they include and why.

April 5:   Hand gestures and postures: expression and emotion in the icon. 

May 3: Icons of the Virgin Mary - are Catholic and Orthodox icons very different? 

Bonus: Question and Answer session

June 7:  Icons of the Sacred Heart - are these really icons? How do you handle themes from the Western Church in Byzantine art? 

July 5:   The influence of humanism on art for the Liturgy, east and west, with a look at later ‘decadent’ icons and what makes for an authentic humanism in the icon.

September 6:   Looking at landscapes in iconography. The possibilities and limitations.

October 4:   Vegetation: painting Paradise.

November 1: Between a rock and a hard place: painting rocks and mountains in icons.