My workshops focus on exploring how to create elegant and beautiful patterns by integrating freehand biomorphic motifs with structured geometric foundations, traditionally constructed using compass and straight edge. Skills-based teaching is supported by slide presentations on historical context, helping connect students to the rich artistic traditions that inspire me, and downloadable guides and practice sheets are provided to facilitate ongoing learning.
Delicate and rhythmical floral borders have long been a captivating feature of the decorative arts, especially in manuscript illumination, miniature painting and carved architecture.
In this two-session online workshop, we will explore floral border art inspired by intricate designs from Central, South, and West Asian cultures.
Delicate and rhythmical floral borders have long been a captivating feature of the decorative arts, especially in manuscript illumination, miniature painting and carved architecture.
In this two-session online workshop, we will explore floral border art inspired by intricate designs from Central, South, and West Asian cultures.
I co-organised and contributed three pieces of work to this exhibition of geometric and biomorphic art, celebrating friendships forged during the Pandemic through taking classes with Adam Williamson.
"This exhibition brings together a small group of artists from the wider community known as Women Who Art, sharing work that has grown from connections first formed during those strange and beautiful years. It’s a quiet testament to the unexpected ways we find purpose - and each other - through patterns."
Decorative floral ornamentation has long captivated our imaginations with its beauty and elegance, from intricate Mamluk manuscripts to the vibrant tiles of Iznik and the splendid marble inlays of the Taj Mahal.
In this two-session online workshop, we will begin to unlock the secrets of the floral style known as Hatayi that thrives in Turkish, Persian and Islamic artistic traditions.