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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

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

Weaving Materials List From top to bottom: different warp yarns, two different hand looms (these are the simplest - simple is best) in ideal sizes for the eventual tiny weaves related to books we will be doing, and the bobbin Above: canvas frame, highly recommended, you can get these in differe

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

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

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

This exhibition had the most miniature paintings I'd seen in one exhibition for a while. So I took photos of all of them for you, to browse in your armchair. Apologies for quality, you should be able to download and/or zoom in and see close-ups if there are any you like. Enjoy!

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 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

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

December downsize Perhaps you've surmised We are moving And always improving To a small little flat East London's where it's at We'll be lean, mean and clean Curated and green I'm super keen To be back in Bethnal Green... ...It feels like a goodbye to West London and to all my experiences there (A

Monthly Meeting 18.2.25, 5-6pm London time - all welcome FEBRUARY MEETING Vaishali Prazmari is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Vaishali Prazmari's Monthly Meeting Time: Feb 18, 2025 17:00 London Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88280011245?pwd=ffuDlbTrPtsziaz1Nv275Zi34Uv

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