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Hello! Thank you Vaishali for including me in this group. I am Prathima from Bangalore, India. I am mostly a self-taught artist and I have dabbled with multiple styles of Indian folk art. My love for Indian miniature arose after attending a short workshop last year during the lockdown on Rajasthani

Hello, my name is Sair and I am a self taught artist. I didn't study fine art but I did learn to read paintings and have an MA in History of Art and Archeology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK. I started painting at a very young age but was introduced to the

Hello, I am a long-time admirer of Indo-Persian and Mughal art and I am happy to be here with you all. Thanks for creating this community! Ayesha Oakland, Calif.

Hi! This is Mahnoor Ali from Pakistan. I am a self taught artist. I use miniature techniques to create realistic paintings. During quarantine i made my first detailed drawing and it was so much appreciated that an old NCA student told me to make miniatures, she told me the tools and techniques and h

Hello everybody! I'm Hannah Charlton, in Spokane, Washington, USA. I make Gothic style miniatures on vegan parchment, using gouache, pens, and gold ink. I studied art and art history at Whitworth University but am mostly self-taught in miniature painting. I'm so happy to learn that there is a commun

I have been putting my inner visions on paper for as long as I can remember. My work draws from diverse sources including atmospheric physics, classical Persian and Indian art, lyrical abstraction, and religious iconography. I am inspired by the patterns that shape our world and my search for a real

Hello to all Forum Members, my name is Paola Marinangeli, I am Italian have decided to join this forum because I am very much interested in Islamic Arts and particularly in the world of Illuminated Manuscripts, I am a painter , Arabian Horses are my most beloved source of inspiration. My warm regar

Hello thank you for this persian miniature website. I am a former student of Ostad Abbas Moayeri (RIP). My miniatures are on my website www.fatmina.com This is one of my miniatures.

I wish that for all of you, I'm Marit and have had quite a few lessons from Vaishali now. I'm not very fond of sharing a lot on online public places so I keep it short 😉 . I came to this forum through Vaishali because I have many e-books I liked to share, I will see where I can put a post with a

Hi, I’m Roxana. It’s a pleasure to meet you all! As a descendant of poets and artisans, ever since I can remember I have been immersed in the world of creation, growing up alongside its magnetism and delights. I’m a great enthusiast of (especially ancient) history, artefacts, arts, mythology, folk

I am a retired biologist, an artist, calligrapher, and music producer/engineer. I’ve been drawing and painting since childhood. I paint album covers for Strunz & Farah, a renowned guitar duo comprised of a Costa Rican and a Persian who have been performing and recording together since 1979. Neotropi

Hi! I am Geeta, This is one of my trials of peacock on silk. The medium is liquid and it’s a tricky to get the right expression with very little time to correct in case of mistakes. I look forward to learn more from this group and improve.

My aim is to encourage and revive the Kangra school and Basohli style of miniature paintings. I introduce and commission new themes to be painted, using the traditional natural pigments, gold leaf and method of painting.

Hi everyone! I'm a professionally trained Book and Paper Conservator and I previously worked in Universities and Libraries. I graduated from a 5-year MA degree in Painting Conservation in Belgium, before completing a 2-year MA degree in Conservation of Books and Library Materials in the UK in 2015.

Hello I am Daniela I currently live in Vienna (Austria). I started miniature painting this year, below is my first work 'Goat and phoenix' (postcard). I felt attracted by the strong vivid colours, the small size and the process of miniature painting. I am currently working on a A4 format with two ph

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Hello all, I'm Nancy. I have not taking any miniature painting courses and I haven't painted any miniatures myself (though I have been painting for over a decade). I have an MFA in painting and I know a good deal about European painting but my knowledge about Eastern painting is lean. With that said

Hello everyone, I am new to the forum. I first attended Vaishali's class at PTSA on clouds over the last past weeks. I loved it and it makes me feel that I need to go on with painting. I am a paper and book conservator specialising in Islamic and Indian manuscripts and paintings. If I have developpe

I’m going to attempt to summarise... I am admittedly very very early on in my artistic journey, I finished school abruptly in March 2020 when the UK lockdown began and was supposed to be starting an Art History degree last September, due to the pandemic and my situation I deferred my university p

This is the shortest bio I could find: Vaishali Prazmari is an artist incorporating Persian, Indian and Chinese elements into her work. This cultural richness has a historical tradition dating back to the Silk Road and it is epitomized in Islamic, Safavid Persian and Mughal Indian miniature painti