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Beautiful, archival quality giclée prints of my work available online!
I am delighted to announce the opening of my online shop! Please do take a look! Many of my most popular paintings are now available as limited edition giclée prints. It makes me very happy to know that a little … Continue reading
Tessellating Tile Patterns for Children
Some new geometry teaching resources for the home-schoolers today: free, downloadable tessellating “tiles” to help with your maths and art curriculum… or just to play with at break time! Here’s a short movie clip to give you some ideas for … Continue reading
FREE Downloadable Islamic Art Teaching Resources for Children and Adults
Today I would really love to share with you some free, downloadable Islamic art activities and teaching resources to help us through the lockdown. I’ve posted some of these resources before, but thought they were worth sharing again to help … Continue reading
New Course at the Yunus Emre Institute in London, October 2017
Tezhip workshop at the Yunus Emre Institute, London I’m looking forward to teaching this new course at the Yunus Emre Institute in London next month. Please see below for details: For centuries, Muslim artists have used gold, ink, and brightly … Continue reading
Spring 2016 Islamic Art courses in London and Windsor
I am delighted to announce that I will be teaching the following courses over the coming weeks and months:
Incredible artwork from my students; future Islamic art courses in Windsor
A little update on the incredible work produced by my students over the summer in my Islamic art workshops. We held classes in Islamic manuscript illumination (or tezhib / tezhip, as it is known in Arabic and Turkish), geometry, and … Continue reading
New Islamic studio in Windsor, Berkshire, UK!
My new studio in Windsor, Berkshire, is up and running and ready for business! I’ve really enjoyed teaching my first few classes in this light, bright peaceful space. As well as running Islamic art courses/ small group and private tuition, … Continue reading
Islamic geometry and plaster carving workshop at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education
Last week, I was back at Cambridge University to deliver my second Islamic art workshop for the year. I had a full day to work with the wonderful trainee art teachers, so I decided to go into a little more … Continue reading
Ramadan Mubarak
Ramadan Mubarak! Wishing you much peace and many wonderful blessings for the Holy Month.
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