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TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE: Natural Marvels & Oddities ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara'ib Starts 4 June | £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 Did you know that

Weaving Magic: Teeny Weaves Starts 4 June | £199 | Online Book now Following on from the woven endbands and bookmarks class, weave on a mini scale, ideally but not exclusively for your mini books - roots, bookmarks, tiny patterns and more. We can extend the endbands vertically to weave in bookmar

Medicine magic Starts 3 June | £349 | Online Book now Medicine Buddha and TIBETAN painting A foray into Himalayan painting for a summer holiday in the hills. We use a traditional Tibetan iconometry handbook as a source and respect that this is also a sacred art, so will aim for replication rath

Weaving Magic: Weave bookmarks Starts 6 May | £199 | Online Book now We continue on from the endbands and roots and combine the two to make our own bookmarks. These can be attached to the book in different ways, which is very handy, or entirely separate to give as gifts. You will need a basic sew

Paint spiralling, happy clouds influenced by Chinese art Starts 7 May | £199 | Online Book now Immerse yourself in the vivid colours, wondrous landscapes and joyous cloud formations in Persian Safavid and other Islamic miniature paintings. Explore Mughal and Chinese influences that synthesised al

An Achievable Artistic Reading Project for the Arabian Nights Starts 7 May | £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 & 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

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

A Book of Scales and Feathers Starts 4 June | £399 | Online Book now Paint the outside bits of dragons and phoenixes. Focus on scale patterns and individual and group feathers. It’s nice to hone in on the small parts of these non-mammals; they are so different to us and worthy of study. (Also the

Create your own characters Starts 3 June | £199 | Online Book now Yes! A proper mermaid. We can do 2 things. We can keep the top of the original Aladdin figure we’ve used all along and swap the bottom for a fishtail. We can also design a real mermaid entirely from scratch. We may or may not have

Illusionist magic Starts 6 May | £349 | Online Book now Turn water into wine, make things appear to burn, or to turn, or to jump, or to change colour, do rope tricks with your hands, make cooked meat appear raw, make things appear to fly out of the oven, or to walk off your plate, make towers app

MARGINAL EXTRAS mini series Starts 6 May | £199 | Online Book now Innumerable Sharafeh Their forms are innumerable. They are small but essential and really finish off an illumination like nothing else can. They can take the form of the merlons around a carpet page or around a roundel or shamseh

TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS AND NEWS OF THE STRANGE: Natural Marvels & Oddities ‘Aja’ib wa-Ghara'ib Starts 7 May | £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 Dog and Greyhound

Double Brother Movies: Sharing our learning about the world through making scrolls and movies Starts 8 May | £45 | Online Book now We are 2 brothers making scrolls and movies while learning about the world and sharing all this via online Zoom sessions. EVERYONE IS WELCOME! Children and adults who

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

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

Paint wondrous, flowing rocks in vibrant colours Starts 4 June | £199 | Online Book now Immerse yourself in the vivid colours, wondrous landscapes and marvellous rock formations in Persian Safavid and other Islamic miniature paintings. Explore Mughal and Chinese influences that synthesised along

MARGINAL EXTRAS mini series Starts 3 June | £199 | Online Book now Scintillating Cintamani The last strange and uncharted territory in our breakdown of the carpet page, margins and illumination is the çintamani. This mythic and mysterious symbol (meaning ‘magic jewel’) is not only found in illu

Create your own characters Starts 6 May | £199 | Online Book now The Angry Housewife. The penultimate character. Hands on hips. Possibly a rolling pin. Don’t mess with her, don’t make a mess, and don’t mess in your pants. As she is the one clearing it all up. Upcoming Sessions Dates: 6 May 202

Durer x Japanese art Starts 6 May | £199 | Online Book now A comparative study of the rhino and the reception of Durer’s famous rhino print. It was widely copied in its time and now we’ll copy it again, and put our own twist on it. Iterate. Durer never saw a rhino in his life. Upcoming Sessio

OF DODOS AND DINOSAURS: A Book of the Prehistoric & Extinct Starts 7 May | £399 | Online Book now They’re so dead, they’re extinct. Imagine being the very last of your species, the last quagga, the last mammoth, the last auk, the last auroch. What would your legacy be? Paint dinosaurs and dodos,

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

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.