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I discovered Radha Pandey on the Penland School of Craft web site here in the States. She makes handmade paper to order, in the traditional Islamic papermaking technique. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kntkIOKdFjI. I hope it is okay to post this video link! See radhapandey.com and the workshop she

An Achievable Artistic Reading Project for the Arabian Nights Starts 2 April | £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 at

Create your own characters Starts 1 April | £199 | Online Book now Paint a Con Artist. Hello? Hello? Yes, you! This is just to inform you that you have been selected at random as a WINNER! You have WON! And now I am ready to transfer a large sum of money into your bank account, namely US$1001 bil

This was a great exhibition about the history of tarot, I saw it with some beloved students recently. It was a good reminder of the main highlights of the European history of tarot cards. These are my photos (of basically every single thing: you will have to download and zoom into some of the writin

Make an Islamic Carpet Page: Unique Analytical Approach to Manuscript Illumination in Several Layers Starts 5 March | £600 | Online Book now Welcome to the last Make a Carpet Page course! It's my analytical approach to manuscript illumination in several layers and the course is divided into 12 ch

Talismanic magic - Magic Clothes Starts 4 March | £349 | Online Book now Talismanic Shirts: Magic Clothes. The Islamic Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals and West African cultures had talismanic shirts (as did other cultures including Buddhism, we will see if we can add that in too) and mainly made in

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE: Natural Marvels & Oddities ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara'ib Starts 5 February | £249 | Online Book now TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Natural Marvels and Oddities: Natural magic and correspondences The Bear and th

After The Art of Attention - The Art of Apprenticeship: Painting the 1001 Nights Starts 19 February | £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 wou

Create your own characters Starts 4 February | £199 | Online Book now For the last parts of our Characters classes we take modern characters and give them a twist. What would an ancient equivalent of a hacker be? Was there one? Was it a Jack of All Trades (master of none? BUT being a jack of all

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

Paint gorgeous deep oceans, limpid lakes, rushing rivers and calm seas Starts 2 April | £199 | Online Book now Immerse yourself in the vivid colours, wondrous landscapes and beautiful water features in Persian Safavid and other Islamic miniature paintings. Explore Mughal and Chinese influences th

Weaving Magic: Weave endbands 1 April | £199 | Online Book now We study the endbands used in traditional Islamic bookbinding and recreate some of them, as well as designing our own. You will need a basic sewing kit as well as silk threads in colours of your choice. You will also need a bound book

Tarot cards in February Feeling light and very airy Because we've chucked extraneous stuff Art and kids are central and they're enough ... Comfy end-of-winter slippers... …morning coffee... …and messy hair (actually this is tumbleweed based on Leonardo da Vinci's moving grass)... ...which

An Achievable Artistic Reading Project for the Arabian Nights Starts 5 March | £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 at a

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE: Natural Marvels and Oddities Aja’ib wa-Ghara'ib Starts 5 March | £249 | Online Book now TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Natural Marvels and Oddities: Natural magic and correspondences The Fox and the Ja

Weaving Magic: Weave your own roots Starts 4 March | £199 | Online Book now Weave your own roots. To be or not to be combined with an island as I have done in previous works. This class is specifically about weaving roots. I’ll share my techniques and ideas for weaving your own varied root forms.

Paint the Supernatural and the Night Sky - Angels, Divs and Demons Starts 5 February | £199 | Online Book now Immerse yourself in the vivid colours, wondrous landscapes and the starry night sky in Persian Safavid and other Islamic miniature paintings. Explore Mughal and Chinese influences that sy

An Achievable Artistic Reading Project for the Arabian Nights Starts 5 February | £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

Astrological magic Starts 4 February | £349 | Online Book now Astrological magic: paint a horoscope. We will aim to recreate this zodiac chart. If we are able, we can also look into making them into your own horoscopes tailored to your birth (there are online calculators for this). Recreation is

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

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE: Natural Marvels & Oddities ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara'ib Starts 2 April | £249 |Online Book now TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Natural Marvels and Oddities: Natural magic and correspondences The Bull and the Li

Which came first, the magic trick or the egg? Starts 1 April | £349 | Online Book now Also, which came first: the nest or the egg? April is a very eggy time. I have a whole encyclopedia of egg magic. Some of the medieval magic tricks (which is a separate upcoming class; not all of them involve eg

Hello from sunny Sarasota, Florida. I am somewhat new to this..I have taken one classso far. I fell in love with the colors and the use of fantasy. This is my first project. I still need to add the leaves and the lines. I have fallen I. Love with using my new ruling pen.

Strange roots, strange buds and strange blooms - the mysterious Voynich manuscript and others Starts 5 March | £399 | Online Book now Strange roots, strange buds and strange blooms reminiscent of bacteria and viruses, this is related to an upcoming Waq Waq class of a wondrous tree of women as wel

Paint fire and the regal Dragon, Simurgh and Phoenix Starts 5 March | £199 | Online Book now Immerse yourself in the vivid colours, wondrous landscapes and fiery mythical beasts in Persian Safavid and other Islamic miniature paintings. Explore Mughal and Chinese influences that synthesised along

Create your own characters Starts 4 March | £199 | Online Book now A series of truly characterful classes and a 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 own characte

A Hall of Mirrors in a book Starts 5 February | £399 | Online Book now Indian sheesh mahal or halls of mirrors in Rajasthan are the inspiration for this class. Golestan Palace in Iran has a fantastic mirrored muqarnas. We'll paint using ordinary paints, metallic paints and even deboss into foil t

Weave a river and the moon Starts 4 February | £199 | Online Book now Second part of the Weaving Introduction: Weave a moon and a river. The circle and the winding line. Once you know how to do these in tapestry hand weaving you will have got the basic skills down. Have a ready warped-up frame

January was cold and felt mean and clean I'm looking forward to feeling serene From Kensal to Bethnal Thinking environmental Now we're settling in all kinds of Green ... A last January fire... …and a house cooling period as I changed my diary (and my abode), experimenting with different formats

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