Golden Cosmos - Sept. 11th - Paonia, CO

$ 120.00

September 11th, 2024 • In-person course
An illuminating day of presentations and workshops
Offered in 2 sessions: 10am-1pm & 2-6pm
at The Learning Council, 138 Grand Ave. in Paonia, Colorado

Instruction & Presentations by:
John Martineau (UK)
Adam Tetlow (UK)
Aloria Weaver (CO)
David Heskin (CO)

SCHEDULE
10-11am • Presentation: The Harmony of the Spheres
John Martineau
Since antiquity philosophers have pondered the idea that the planets hid important harmonic and geometrical relationships. In this talk, international publisher and author John Martineau will explore the geometry and harmony of our own solar system, and that of some recently discovered exoplanetary systems too.

11-1pm • Workshop: Cosmic Volumes
Aloria Weaver & David Heskin
This playful morning session is a hands-on exploration of 3-dimensional geometric forms, using a variety of materials and approaches to aid in our understanding of the relationship between number and structure. Basic forms combine to create increasingly complex solids that can be appreciated from multiple orientations.

1-2pm Lunch Break

2-3pm • Presentation: On Beauty
John Martineau
What is beauty? Is it always in the eye of the beholder? Or are there aspects of the aesthetic experience we can all agree about? In this talk, international publisher and author John Martineau will explore the classical subject of aesthetics.

3-6pm • Workshop: Golden Cosmos
Adam Tetlow
Sacred geometry is rooted in the practice of drawing with ruler and compass, primordial forms that echo the structure and symbols of our world.

Perhaps the most famous of these forms is the golden section which has enchanted artists and designers, scientists and philosophers from across the planet for millenia.

In this workshop we will explore these fundamental principles through the making of patterns with hand, eye and heart. Focusing on the golden section and its miraculous properties we will explore it in ways that will surprise those new to the visual philosophy of geometry, and seasoned professionals alike.

INSTRUCTOR BIOGRAPHIES

JOHN MARTINEAU graduated in Philosophy from Bristol University and spent a few years in the early computer games industry before completing a Master’s degree at the King’s School of Traditional Arts.

John Martineau is the publisher of the international award-winning Wooden Books pocket series. He is also the author of “A Little Book of Coincidence in the Solar System”. He is currently writing a larger book about the the cosmological fine-tuning problem.

Wooden Books is a series of richly-illustrated and fascinating books exploring the age-old themes of nature, pattern, cosmos, design and geometry. It now boasts a list of more than 60 titles, with 2.5 million printed copies in 25 languages. Wooden Books won Best Non-Fiction Series at the 2007 New York Book Show.

ADAM TETLOW is an Artist, Author and Teacher focusing on the intersection of number, traditional art and philosophy. He studied under Keith Critchlow and Paul Marchant, graduating from the King’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts in 2003, and has, since 2011, been a student of John Neal. He teaches regularly for The Sacred Art of Geometry Studios and the King’s Foundation School in the UK, as well as online classes.

Adam Tetlow is author of several volumes in the Wooden Books series, including Celtic Pattern: Visual Rhythms of the Ancient Mind (2012), The Diagram (2021) and Ancient Metrology (forthcoming 2025), as well as contributor to Quadrivium (2010) and Designa (2013).

ALORIA WEAVER was born in 1979 in Buffalo, New York. She began oil painting in 1993 as an apprentice to several professional artists at the Buffalo Arts Studio of Western New York under the mentorship of its founder and director, Joanna Angie (an oil painter influenced by Tibetan Buddhism). Weaver studied briefly at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, then SUNY at Buffalo and Buffalo State.

Weaver completed her postgraduate studies at the King’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts in London, earning a master’s degree in Traditional Arts with distinction. There, she was initiated into a number of sacred arts and architectural craft lineages, including Islamic geometry, medieval stained glass, gilding, ceramic tile, stone carving and parquetry. Weaver holds a remarkable number of traditional lineages, including:

Atelier training in the sight-size method of classical realism with alumni of the Florence Academy of Art in Italy
Italian egg tempera icon painting and gilding with Fred Wessel, through an unbroken transmission from master to student dating back to Fra Angelico in 1430
Russo-Byzantine egg tempera icon painting and gilding with Irina Bradley
Mischtechnik (mixed-technique), an indirect process of painting with egg tempera and oil glazes, as taught by Ernst Fuchs, one of the founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism.

Since the late 1990’s, Weaver has acted as guest curator for galleries from New York to Colorado to Washington, as well as in Vienna, Austria and in London, UK. Weaver has traveled extensively throughout the US and Europe, painting, teaching, exhibiting and giving lectures and presentations. For three years, she was an instructor at the Vienna Academy of Visionary Art in Austria (the world’s first international school for Visionary Art) and the Academy’s summer program in Italy. She is the CEO of SOMA, Organic Artist Elixirs, the Executive Director of Luminous Flux Gallery & Studios and has taught private art intensives nationally and internationally since 2011.

Weaver has exhibited work in a multitude of prominent locations within the US. Outside of the United States, Weaver’s artwork has been exhibited and sold in Mexico, Spain, France, Germany, Austria, and the UK.

DAVID HESKIN, a lifelong artist, began oil painting in 1995. His first 15 years with oils were self-guided, after which time he sought out artistic techniques that are on the brink of being lost. After a decade of studies in numerous traditional artistic lineages, his original artwork and teaching have become integrated expressions of this creative fusion.

David’s art defies categorization, as he has produced extensive bodies of work in a variety of styles and mediums. Combining tradition and innovation, his driving aspiration is to create artifacts and visual experiences that are otherwise unavailable to the human eye, and that speak to the journey of the soul.

David earned his Master’s Degree in Traditional Arts from the Kings’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts in 2020. In a long-term collaboration with his wife, artist Aloria Weaver, he develops and teaches international, technique-driven painting courses. His work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, cultural centers and theaters, and is held in private collections throughout North America, Europe and beyond.