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Paint the Supernatural and the Night Sky - Angels, Divs and Demons Starts 5 April 2023 | £295 | Online 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 synthesised

April Fool's Day Play class! Feast of Fools, master-apprentice reversals and parent-child chaos-love 1 April 2023 | £10 | Online What better way to reconnect with your inner child than to take a class with one! Suitable for both kids and adults. This is a Tinselling Play class, inspired by the Brit

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 1 March 2023 | £349 | online What wonders will you paint in the blank tapestry of potential? The wicked vizier is a classic stock character. Think of Aladdin's Jafar. However, the 1001 Nights presents Shahrazad's fath

Mansur's Menagerie Starts 21 March 2023 | £199 | online Paint a colour-changing chameleon Paint the changeling chameleon in changeling colours as part of Mansur’s Menagerie, a bestiary of miniature painting inspired by the flora and fauna painted by Mansur. Unequalled in his age, the Nãdir-al-’Asr,

I don't think this is in Geneva anymore - in Toronto! Lots of hidden spaces and rooms leading into other rooms... very 1001 Nights... what's not to like! Also painters painting paintings and other painters. Also they are having a natter as they work. Perfect!

The Art of the Book Starts on Tue Jan 17, 2023 | £399 I love islands, I love books. Isolarios are both of these things: they are books of islands. Let’s make one! A book of maps of islands in a turquoise cover. This book will be slightly bigger than the previous one and will still conform to the int

Rachel's Flowers Part of the Cabinet of Curiosities oil miniature series Starts on Wed Feb 1, 2023 | £399 Rachel Ruysch and the Dutch Golden Age Inspired by Dutch flower paintings and the work of Rachel Ruysch, paint a flower composition on copper. During this class, students will focus on a small

Architecture in miniature painting Started on Tue Sep 6, 2022 | £349 The inspiration behind Disney's Aladdin's palace of Agrabah - the Disney artists looked to miniature paintings for inspiration - and a Turkish castle that could be from a dream. Fantasy architecture! These have been long-awaited c

Poison Vespertine Series: Carnivorous Plants & Night Blooming Flowers Started on Tue Nov 1, 2022 | £165 We need to recognise these poisonous plants so we know what we’re dealing with. One person’s poison is another person’s medicine. Lastly, the opium poppy is equally famous for its flower as well

Poison Vespertine Series: Carnivorous Plants & Night Blooming Flowers Started on Tue Sep 20, 2022 | £165 We need to recognise these poisonous plants so we know what we’re dealing with. One person’s poison is another person’s medicine. Also known as the Dutchman's Pipe Cactus, Princess of the Night

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 5 April 2023 | £349 | Online April Showers and Water Clocks Al Jazari's Elephant Water Clock is close to my heart. He wrote: 'The elephant represents the Indian and African cultures, the two dragons represent Chines

MAKING MINIATURE BOOKS CLASSES You will need: A4 90gsm tracing paper (if it is a little more or less than this, eg. 80, 70, 60 or 100, 110 gsm, it doesn’t matter too much) Big bulldog clip: These are heavy duty stationery items to clamp/hold lots of paper together, as in the photo Wooden clamp des

Architecture in miniature painting Starts 1 March 2023 | £349 | online Romance in the ruins. Desolate cities are a motif of the 1001 Arabian Nights and an inspiration for my Memory Palace (for more, see www.memorypalace.co.uk). In this image, King Anushirwan and his vizier visit an actual desolate c

The Art of the Book Starts 7 March 2023 | £399 | online Islamic bestiaries were unusual; there are only a handful of extant illustrated editions in this tradition, whereas the Medieval European ones are probably better known. You can be inspired by one or the other or both. Realistic or emblematic,

Make a miniature book of herbal medicine Starts on Tue Jan 24, 2023 | £349 Make a miniature book - put our knowledge built up in previous sessions and make a miniature, teeny tiny book. We will paint the miniature, tiny images of herbal plants, fold and cut the paper and bind the book. Let's paint m

The Art of the Map Starts on Tue Jan 17, 2023 | £199 Piri Re’is was an Ottoman navigator, geographer, cartographer and admiral. In these 2 classes we focus first on tracing a Piri Re’is island that we like with those famous cusped coastlines, and then to design and draw our own fantasy island in the

Make a miniature book of poison plants Started on Tue Nov 29, 2022 | £349 Make a miniature book - put our knowledge built up in previous sessions and make a miniature, teeny tiny book. We will paint the miniature, tiny images of the poison plants, fold and cut the paper and bind the book. Let's pain

Paint the 'ships of the desert' Started on Wed Nov 30, 2022 | £349 Paint the twin fighting camels of the most famous master miniature painter of all time - Ustad Kamaluddin Behzad. Described by a Safavid shah as the pinnacle of his age in his own lifetime and a model for painters to shame even Mani,

Poison Vespertine Series: Carnivorous Plants & Night Blooming Flowers Started on Tue Oct 18, 2022 | £165 We need to recognise these poisonous plants so we know what we’re dealing with. One person’s poison is another person’s medicine. According to the Victorians who made up their own secret langua

Poison Vespertine Series: Carnivorous Plants & Night Blooming Flowers Started on Tue Sep 6, 2022 | £165 We need to recognise these poisonous plants so we know what we’re dealing with. One person’s poison is another person’s medicine. Hemlock is highly poisonous - it killed Socrates. Henbane less s

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 2 April | £349 | Online April Fools and Lovers Lovers are fools but not all fools are lovers. Some of them just fall downstairs (or perhaps they are pushed... by jealous lovers?). Or fall head over heels in love...

Up close, fine details of patterns, full image... enjoy!

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE CLASSES ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara’ib Starts 7 March 2023 | £349 | online Soon it’ll be spring in the northern hemisphere. Time for some mad hats and ginger cats! Design your own fantasy hat and enjoy painting the curled up ginger cat. There is something special