IkonTour Lecturer:
Father Patrick Doolan
Father Patrick graduated in 1979 from the Rhode Island School of Design with a degree in painting. Thereafter, he studied with a number of American iconographers until 1981, when he was accepted as a pupil by the Master Iconographer Leonid Ouspensky. Father Patrick was to spend several months of each year in Paris, studying with the Master until Ouspensky's repose in 1987.
While living in Thessaloniki, Greece (1983-84), Father Patrick studied the major iconographic monuments of Greece, Turkey, Macedonia, Serbia, Sinai, and Western Europe. In 1987, he was able to study the major icon collections of Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia. He studied fresco painting technique at L'Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris in 1987, and at San Francisco State College in 1990.
Father Patrick taught Fresco Painting at the Roehampton Art Institute in Wimbledon, England, and has lectured widely across the United States since moving to California with his monastic brotherhood in 1983. In 1987, he taught at the Valamo Academy, New Valamo, Finland, lecturing and teaching icon painting. From 1993-99, he worked as Adjunct Professor of Sacred Art at the Orthodox Institute (Graduate Theological Union) in Berkeley, California, lecturing on the History and Theology of Iconography and Church Architecture.
An iconographer since 1980, Father Patrick oversees the Workshop at Saint Gregory of Sinai Monastery where icons commissioned by churches and individuals are produced in the ancient medium of egg tempera, as well as other media, including wood, cast-metal, mosaic, and textile. The Workshop's wall murals are done in true fresco technique, painted directly onto freshly applied plaster. Father Patrick is currently engaged in painting frescoes in the Church of Saints Gregory and Anastasia in France, and Saint Seraphim's Orthodox Church in Santa Rosa, California. Images of these churches, as well as examples of portable icons of the Workshop, may be seen on the Monastery's web site at www.gsinai.com.
Father Patrick is author of Recovering the Icon, The Life and Work of Leonid Ouspensky, available from SVS Press. An American reviewer of the French edition, La Redecouverte de L'Icone, wrote, "In the . . . volume listed here, photographed and edited by Father [Patrick] Doolan, an American monk-iconographer from St. Gregory of Sinai Monastery in California, we have a stunning documentation of the entire sweep of Ouspensky's oeuvre . . . his commentary enhances one's appreciation of the beauty of the icons without excessive detail." [St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 83-4.]
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IkonTour Director/Manager:
Mary Beth Lytle
Mary Beth has been organizing, escorting, and managing special-interest tours in Europe for both large and small groups since 1994. Her expertise ensures that every itinerary balances the tour's featured interest with experiences of the beauty, history, and culture of each destination, always including leisure time for independent exploration and shopping.
Saints Peter & Paul
Orthodox Mission
 Saints Peter and Paul is a Mission Parish of the Holy Orthodox Metropolis of Portland of the Holy Orthodox Church in North America. The Mission is a not-for-profit, Arizona corporation with facilities located at 1415 E. Broadway Boulevard in Tucson, Arizona. Mailing address: PO Box 42816, Tucson, AZ 85733-2816. Message phone: 520-622-1566. Email address: info@sspp-tucson.org.
St. Gregory of Sinai Monastery
 Saint Gregory of Sinai Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox men's community established in 1983. The community offers a daily cycle of services in its chapel, dedicated to Saint Silouan the Athonite. The chief support of the Monastery is icon painting and the sale of greeting cards, featuring icons of the Monastery Workshop and distributed by Saint Vladimir's Seminary Press. The Monastery is in communion with the Holy Orthodox Church in North America. Mailing address: 8252 Harrington Flat Road, Kelseyville, California 95451-7711. Telephone: 707-279-0488. Email address: info@gsinai.com.
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