Icon painting at Agios Panteleimon

At Agios Panteleimon Monastery

 The Monastery of Agios Panteleimon near the mining village of Mitsero is yet another monastic establishment run by nuns, the effect of whose gentle hands can be admired in the garden and everywhere in the monastery. I found that the resident Icon Painter knew the icon-painting brothers of St. Barnabas. He took an interest in the old books I had with me and we had a long and interesting conversation about painting with egg and tempera and portraits in oils.