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An Achievable Artistic Reading Project for the Arabian Nights Starts 8 January | £31 | Online Book now 1001 Nights: An Achievable Artistic Reading Project for the Arabian Nights £31 per month Each week in class we discuss 7 nights. If you would like to join this class please feel free to do so

Slowly focus on perfecting your brush technique in this Masterclass Starts 8 January | £199 | Online Book now Dive deep into the dance of the Black Pen - Siyah Qalam - and follow the lyric, ritualistic rhythms of the brush in its highest expression as we capture the wild, intense forms of the mov

Islands in January Starts 7 January | £199 | Online Book now As ever, I find myself thinking about islands in January (why is that?). Following on with the starry theme, here are some navigators in the Indian Ocean and a starry night sky by the Master of Egerton. They have got the turquoise colou

2024 End of Year Show - CHARACTERS Starts 30 November | £50 | Online Book now The end of year show this year has the theme of Characters. ‘Characters’ do not necessarily need to be human… they can be humans, or dogs, or determined raspberries… This £50 is for developer fee and web hosting live

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 27 November | £349 | Online Book It's time to celebrate the end of the Procession and the probable end of the TALES with Candy Gardens! This monster confectionary creations were post-circumcision comfort treats. Ta

An Achievable Artistic Reading Project for the Arabian Nights Starts 27 Nov | £31 | Online Book now 1001 Nights: An Achievable Artistic Reading Project for the Arabian Nights Nights 158-189 £31 per month Each week in class we discuss 7 nights. You read 7 nights per week. (Or as many nights it

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 27 Nov | £349 | Online Book now It's time to celebrate the end of the Procession and the probable end of the TALES with Candy Gardens! This monster confectionary creations were post-circumcision comfort treats. Tal

Interesting, beautiful and unusual scissors Starts 29 Oct | £399 | Online Book now A book dedicated to inspiring scissors. Scissors that are knuckledusters; double scissors; anthropomorphic scissors; twisted scissors; bent scissors; tassled scissors; scissors with metallic and various other finis

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 29 October | £249 | Online Book now TALES: Ingenious Devices A swing and a wheel with a difference: the swing is Levni's Catherine wheel or fairground ferris wheel swing and the wheel is the ingenious device of t

After The Art of Attention - The Art of Apprenticeship: Painting the 1001 Nights Starts 30 October | £600 | Online Book now Apprenticeship I’ve had the pleasure of gaining the uniquely deep learning while working in an artist’s studio alongside an artist as an apprentice assistant myself. I woul

Tales of the marvellous and news of the strange: natural marvels and oddities ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara'ib Starts 8 January | £249 | Online Book now Continuing with January’s island magic theme we focus here on sea creatures. Paint narwhals, crocodile, tortoise, turtles and a fish lady. Borne from a desi

Weaving Magic 1. Weaving Introduction Starts 7 January | £199 | Online Book now Weaving Introduction This is a 4-part mini series on tapestry hand weaving. I have used hand weaving extensively in previous work and studied Medieval and kilim tapestry hand weaving techniques, and we can also combi

Cosmological magic: paint a map of the stars Starts 7 January | £349 | Online Book now We take this c.1780 Jaipur star map depicting the northern and southern celestial hemispheres as well as other Indian star charts as inspiration and either recreate both or either hemisphere or make a fictional

Rockwork Margins Starts 26 November | £249 | Online Book Margins: a series focusing on the margins of a manuscript page. These are as important as the main image. We look at fantastic margins. All part of the deep dive into the book arts. You will need teastained and prepared paper ready for cl

A Book of Ancient Drugs Starts 26 Nov | £399 | Online Book now Opium, coffee and tea are all drugs. Many drugs are legal and many are not (alcohol). Paint the paraphernalia of drug use including exquisite opium pipes and opium dens. This is not suggesting you take drugs; on the contrary you shoul

Rockwork Margins Starts 26 Nov | £249 | Online Book now Margins: a series focusing on the margins of a manuscript page. These are as important as the main image. We look at fantastic margins. All part of the deep dive into the book arts. You will need tea-stained and prepared paper ready for cl

Create your own characters Starts 26 Nov | £199 | Online Book now A new series of truly characterful classes and our first creative painting class. Using the ‘Aladdin’ character as an Everyman/Everywoman/Everyperson stem-cell figure from which our characters will sprout, we will create our very o

A Book of Fate and Fortune Starts 30 Oct | £399 | Online Book now A falnameh فالنامه is a divination book or book of omens. Sometimes the bibliomancy takes the form of a grid and other times a book is flipped open to a random page, which answers a question on your mind. The Divan of Hafez or othe

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 30 October | £349 | Online Book now Send in the clowns. And jesters and cheeky monkeys. Building up momentum in the procession now towards the final moments but one - this is the penultimate comic relief. Gearing u

Design an individual dome based on illumination and illustration Starts 5 August | £199 | Online Book now Be inspired by Islamic illumination as well as the illustrators of the Arabian Nights to design your own individual dome. A dome is a great expanse of a surface to design, colour and make. Pa

Transformational magic - The Classic of Mountains and Seas Starts 8 January | £399 | Online Book now There is a toy theatre thread that runs through the current crop of books. Between the Peepshow and the moveable books there is the Harlequinade book - also known as a lift-the-flap book. On the s

Create your own characters Starts 7 January | £199 | Online Book now A new series of truly characterful classes and our first creative painting class. Using the ‘Aladdin’ character as an Everyman/Everywoman/Everyperson stem-cell figure from which our characters will sprout, we will create our ver

Create your own characters Starts 27 November | £199 | Online Book A new series of truly characterful classes and our first creative painting class. Using the ‘Aladdin’ character as an Everyman/Everywoman/Everyperson stem-cell figure from which our characters will sprout, we will create our very

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 26 November | £249 | Online Book TALES: Ingenious Devices Likely the last of the ingenious devices - a potluck end of year celebration of miscellaneous and interesting items: triangular domes, floppy domes, an ar

A Hall of Mirrors in a book Starts 27 Nov | £399 | Online Book now Golestan Palace in Iran has a fantastic mirrored muqarnas. We'll paint using ordinary paints, metallic paints and even deboss into foil to make our mirrored creations. This is the Golestan Palace meets Versailles in a book. A fitt

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 26 Nov | £249 | Online Book now TALES: Ingenious Devices Likely the last of the ingenious devices - a potluck end of year celebration of miscellaneous and interesting items: triangular domes, floppy domes, an arc

An Achievable Artistic Reading Project for the Arabian Nights Starts 30 Oct | £31 | Online Book now 1001 Nights: An Achievable Artistic Reading Project for the Arabian Nights Nights 127-157 £31 per month Each week in class we discuss 7 nights. You read 7 nights per week. (Or as many nights it

Goldwork on a turquoise page Starts 29 Oct | £249 | Online Book now Margins: a series focusing on the margins of a manuscript page. These are as important as the main image. We look at fantastic margins, also involving gold. All part of the deep dive into the book arts. You will need tea-staine

Create your own characters Starts 29 Oct | £199 | Online Book now A new series of truly characterful classes and our first creative painting class. Using the ‘Aladdin’ character as an Everyman/Everywoman/Everyperson stem-cell figure from which our characters will sprout, we will create our very o

Create your own characters Starts 6 August | £199 | Online Book now A new series of truly characterful classes and our first creative painting class. Using the ‘Aladdin’ character as an Everyman/Everywoman/Everyperson stem-cell figure from which our characters will sprout, we will create our very