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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

Doing all in one - photo essay for those that are not in the UK. British Museum first: Some nice objects, felt like 'Silk Road for beginners', good introduction but I wanted more. Also - only one giant room, basically, and I felt like I wanted to see more Thi

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

Hello from California's central coast, I am currently a graduate student at California State University, Monterey Bay's Science Illustration Graduate Certificate Program. My final work focus on pollinators: specifically native bees and lepidoptera of North America. I studied history as an undergradu

Books and lights Light reading of the Nights Pointe shoes and ice creams Oast houses and ad dreams Axolotls and animals, the Conference of the Birds Giraffes, a Cyberdog and, although not preferred, Interest goes down but up goes the rent That's summer in England and London and Kent... ...T

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

The British Library show Medieval Women in their own Words is a must-see if you're in London - if not, here is a photo story below for you to browse! Christine de Pizan is the main woman that springs to mind... top of mind. The City of Ladies - there are others, and they are covered in this show

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

Prints and books and desert nights Sandy futures and empty flights To start with  Some artists And art throughout As we're moving out Art at the bottom Shops I haven't forgotten A goodbye moon See you soon... ...Launched: It's HERE: the print of A Recreation of The Court of Gayumars is re

Hello all! This question betrays the rustiness of my miniature painting savoir-faire -- I'm due for a refresher course with Vaishali; it's been a while! I was admiring this beautiful painting by @samanthabuckley designs on instagram (screenshot below, and link to the Instagram post here: https://www

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

The India edit You'll know when you've read it Pink that is silvered Palaces mirrored Marbled Mahal Held me in thrall Taj and Rajputana Red sandstone kitabkhana Teaching sunrise and sunset  (More to come but not yet) Watching my belly As we land in Delhi... ...Iconic India: yes, part of the deal

Andy Pandy Jacarandy In the Milky Way Goodbye I say Sunset Thames Till we meet again Let you melt free And hello Delhi... ...A universe and stars. The Milky Way as part of my scroll. Light bleeding into dark. Candour ends paranoia. Andy loved Allan Ginsberg and even met him. Andy and I often com

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

Currently showing in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. Also includes my work The Four Friends: A Tale of 4 Heads and 4 Tales. The Inspired from Manuscripts exhibition showcases a profound journey into the timeless beauty of historic Islamic and Arabian manuscripts. Each piece in the exhibition draws

288 pages and 272 illustrations by Sheila R. Canby Sheila Canby is the curator in charge of the Islamic Art Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Previously, she was Curator of Islamic Collections at the British Museum. Her other publications include Persian Painting and The Golden Age of