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Special anniversary session and sharing - next Sun

Special anniversary session and sharing - next Sunday will be exactly 1 year since @adamwilliamsonart taught the first online class!

As the cherry trees blossom to celebrate Spring and a new dawn we will draw the Tree of Life and share tales and art from the past year!

The leaf of every tree brings message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing.
Rumi

Tree of Life - 4th April 2021

Part 1
Drawing session
3pm - 4.30pm
We will draw the archetypal 16th Century Jali carving from Sidi Saiyyid ni Jali, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

Part 2
Show and Tell
4.30 - 6.30pm
An opportunity / space for everyone to share their work and stories from the past year. If you would like to participate please have your artwork to hand.

The past year has been such an epic journey and we would like to celebrate the community and remarkable work! We will also share the latest Profound Patterns book with the group 🙂

The tree of life is the fundamental archetypal form spanning all traditions and the embodiment of biomorphic art connecting earth to the heavens. We will discuss the tree in Eden, the Cosmic Tree, Tuba in its macrocosmic form grows at the uppermost limits of the universe. In its microcosmic form, it’s cultivation depends upon the mystic.
The tree has sent down its roots, sent up its trunk, and spread out its branches, so that this world, the world is Symbols, and the world of Archetypes, are all contained by this tree. It’s the symbol of wisdom which, through roots in meditation, bears fruit of the spirit.

As a general rule, Jaalis cannot be 'woven' in the

As a general rule, Jaalis cannot be 'woven' in the conventional manner of most classical Islamic geometric designs. Richard is indicating a method for mitering and faceting the design. He will discuss this process more in the upcoming classes.
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Registration still open, recordings available of earlier classes.
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In next weeks online sessions with @adamwilliamson

In next weeks online sessions with @adamwilliamsonart we travel to Granada, Spain.

We will revisit the stunning rosette panel in the Court of Lions at the Alhambra Palace in Granada. We will draw the full extended geometric and biomorphic pattern over a 2 part class.
This composition is full of profound secrets and mysteries. Variations are found all over the Alhambra Palace. From the Facade to Comares to the hall of the 2 sisters.

Court of Lions Expansion PART 1 Geometric Elements
Thursday 18th of March 2021 15:00 (GMT)
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Court of Lions Expansion PART 2 Biomorphic details
Sunday 21st of March 2021 15:00 (GMT)

Follow the links in the stories to register.

The act of creating biomorphic art is an example o

The act of creating biomorphic art is an example of ‘coming-to-knowing’: learning through doing. The patterns are their teachers, and corrections suggest themselves in the voice of the designs.
The act of drawing biomorphs teaches the artist to trust; working freehand and with freeforms involves engaging with chaos. Over time, patterns of consciousness evolve and the arabesque art develops muscle memory and this process becomes fluid and the hand and spirit sync with the flow of nature.

Artwork by @3dottedpenguins from the ‘Dynamic Biomorphic’ online class with @adamwilliamsonart after his research in Bahia Palace Marrakesh, Morocco, this class is available via the online archive, link in the stories.

Humayan’s Tomb and Isa Khan enclosure, New Dehli

Humayan’s Tomb and Isa Khan enclosure, New Dehli.
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Announcing NEW SERIES: Jaali Screens
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Found throughout the Islamic world, Jaalis and lattices are essential in the demarcation and articulation of architectural space. Composed of unique and dynamic symmetries they create stunning patterns of evanescent light cast upon the floors and walls of buildings.
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In this 7 week course, we will re-create a number of classic screens, studying their underlying geometry and examining the extent to which they both confirm to and deviate from the traditional rules associated Islamic geometric patterns. For this course our main geographical focus will be the Indian sub-continent, where many of the most striking examples are found. Patterns taught will be new designs not previously taught on-line by Richard Henry.
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(image: R Henry 2014)

Registration now open.

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Visionary painting by @ether.lune This is online

Visionary painting by @ether.lune

This is online class is called ‘The Bou Inania Tablet’ and available on Adam’s online archive.

https://artofislamicpattern.com/online-classes/online-course-archive/online-the-bou-inania-tablet/#/2

Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. Su

Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.

Sultan Hasan Rosette online class, drawn by Hanna Ward.

Emerge into the light Today we draw the 14th Cen

Emerge into the light

Today we draw the 14th Century Mamluk bronze door medallions of Sultan Barquq Cairo ✨
Link to the class in the stories

Triad Rotation- Bronze Doors and Patterns of Cairo

Triad Rotation- Bronze Doors and Patterns of Cairo Part 1, taught by @adamwilliamsonart final image painted by @rayhana.k.h.art
Link for this Valentine’s Day special session in the stories. Part 2 is this sunday (please complete part 1 first). Email adamzoomclasses@gmail.com for details

New online series ’Jaali’ by @richardhenryart

We will extend our stay in Mamluk Cairo to sit on

We will extend our stay in Mamluk Cairo to sit on dusty steps and sketch the exquisite bronze-plate shamsah doors of the Sultan Qalawun and Barquq courtyards.

Bronze Doors of Cairo
Online class
14th Feb 💙 ....Date with a shamsah (little sun)
Links in the stories.

Our online classes featured in yesterdays Wall Str

Our online classes featured in yesterdays Wall Street Journal. We have now built an archive of over 70 downloadable classes and courses. These classes are a transmission from our teachers and a result of a lifetime of research and study, travel and tuition. We need to thank all the thousands of participants for creating such otherworldly artwork which has brought these patterns to life and inspired this worldwide appreciation for the depths of making pattern in this time of review and transition. We will keep going online until we can teach in person again.

See the stories for links to online class archives.

Part 1 of Biomorphs of the Indomalayan Realm onlin

Part 1 of Biomorphs of the Indomalayan Realm online class rendered by @haneefahusmani

Part 2 starts in 3 hours, link in the stories. We will visit divine patterns from Kelantan, Malaysia.

“My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Trac

“My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ;
'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved.
I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one;
One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call. ”

― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's m

Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All its proofs are very clear and orderly. ... In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence.

Ibn Khaldun, 1332-1406

This is an archived online Platonic solids session by @adamwilliamsonart manifesting projected isometric drawings of the 5 solids with compass + straight edge. In the second session we build the platonic solids with chickpeas and cocktail sticks.

Link in the stories

Book recommendation, Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice by Robert Lawlor

Final image by @inesarosteguiartes

NEW MINI-SERIES – Islamic Geometry Journal Taug

NEW MINI-SERIES – Islamic Geometry Journal

Taught by Richard Henry, this NEW SERIES will focus upon patterns from the Islamic Geometry Journal (Wooden Books 2019)

All Registrants will receive a FREE signed copy of the Islamic Geometry Journal, invites to all LIVE sessions and lifetime access to class recordings and supporting material.

The Islamic Geometry Journal is a beautifully presented luxury journal/notebook created by award winning publisher Wooden Books. Bound within a leatherette cover, it comprises 160 pages of watercolour-quality paper, lined, gridded and blank, together with reproductions of 32 original drawings by Richard Henry gathered from his classes and study trips over the last 10 years.

NEW ! ONLINE Drawing from the Past: Working with M

NEW ! ONLINE
Drawing from the Past: Working with Medieval Manuals of Geometry.

This presentation will be taught by Katya Nosyreva PhD and facilitated by Adam Williamson.

Historical references on the construction of Islamic geometric patterns are rare, but what we do have offers fascinating glimpses of practical methods, thought processes, and the world-view of medieval Islamic craftsmen.
In this special two-part introduction we will explore two rare and remarkable documents dealing with geometric modes of construction:

A Book on Those Geometric Constructions Which Are Necessary for a Craftsman, written by the tenth century mathematician and astronomer Abū al-Wafā’ Būzjānī (940-998) and an anonymous Persian compendium entitled On Similar and Complementary Interlocking Figures, a practical manual on geometry, appended to a Persian translation of al-Būzjānī’s text.

We will work through a series of constructions from these documents. Evolving from theoretical principles of Euclidean geometry, some of the diagrams can be traced to architectural scrolls and ornamental architectural solutions. These exercises will provide us with some understanding of the early roots of the incredibly complex vocabulary of the Islamic geometric patterns and their relationship to such disciplines as surveying and arithmetic.
We will explore how questions of practical/applied geometry were discussed by mathematicians and practitioners of various crafts, and how the practice of drawing geometric designs constituted a tradition of recoding and transmitting architectural knowledge. The diagrams in these documents visually evoke concepts of beauty and order rooted in the harmony of proportionally interrelated figures and, in part, explain the timeless fascination that geometry holds for contemporary artists and practitioners.
Drawing from the Past: Working with Medieval Manuals of Geometry PART 1

Sunday's 10th & 17th January 2021
15:00- 18:00
British Summer Time – Time zone in United Kingdom (GMT)

Kitāb fī mā yaḥtaj ilayh al-ṣāniʿ min al-aʿmāl al-handasiyya (A Book on Those Geometric Constructions Which Are Necessary for a Craftsman), Abū al-Wafā’ Būzjān

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