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Join us in the tomorrow in the London studio tomor

Join us in the tomorrow in the London studio tomorrow for our geometry of structure workshop! There is the option for a day pass on either the Saturday or Sunday.

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Geometry of Structure
Saturday & Sunday
10.30am - 4.30pm
19th & 20th June 2021

Using natural materials make an array of geometric models and 3-dimensional static and kinetic structures.

Build a series of polyhedral forms from sticks and string right up to constructing a 12 foot geodesic dome and examine the key family of natural proportions, including the Golden Section, that underlie Sacred Architecture from across the world.

* Limited places
* All equipment & materials included
* Open to all abilities
* Register for the class

Stunning rendering by @aishachangezi of the The Mi

Stunning rendering by @aishachangezi of the The Minbar of Ibn Tulun online class taught by @adamwilliamsonart Adam is taking a break from online classes for a few weeks.

All past classes including this one have now been uploaded to our unlisted youtube channel. They can be accessed via the online archive

https://artofislamicpattern.com/online-classes/online-course-archive/

Over the the past year Adam has presented over 55 unique pattern classes from around the world, with over 13k registrations, largest class was the Yazd rosette at 700+ participants.

Infinite thanks to @aly_williamson @ling.duong @sordomiras @maimonavar @alifia.artastic @mayaroder who helped in various ways including answering thousands of emails. Thanks to @sacredartofgeometry for hosting the first lockdown sessions, thanks to @leiladear @lateefaspiker who helped out with many of the online sessions and to @yasmin_hayat and @adamtetlowteaching @pascribe @artofthepen for sharing their skills and knowledge with the community that has emerged.

In-person classes! Our Summer School in August is

In-person classes! Our Summer School in August is filling up fast, if you plan to join us booking via the website is essential.

We are excited to finally welcome everyone back to our airy East London Studios for our first in-person classes since lockdown.

Summer School
2nd - 13th August 2021
5 or 10 day intensive course
Mon -Fri, 10.30am – 4.30pm

• Participants may join for 1 or 2 weeks
• Week 1 is an introductory course and assumes no previous knowledge culminates in a plaster carve session
• Week 2 is an advanced course focusing on Persian Patterns culminates in a traditional gilding class

This is a practical introduction to the principles of Islamic Pattern. Using the traditional tools of compass and straight edge we will re-create beautiful patterns from across the world. By working with designs of progressive complexity students develop a solid grounding in the language of symmetry in Islamic Art.

This introductory module will introduce 6-fold and 12-fold geometric patterns from across the Islamic world, together with elementary biomorphic patterns, with a focus upon the Rumi motif. There will be two brief contextual slide lectures.
The module culminates with the application of traditional plaster and stucco carving.

Experience one of the most satisfying carving processes and complete a pattern of your choice.Â  Participants will practice relief & piercing carving techniques and receive an introduction to plaster casting and mold making. There will also be to opportunity to use traditional chisels from Morocco.

This is an opportunity for students to develop more advanced skills in constructing geometric and arabesque/islimi.

The focus of the course will be upon patterns from medieval Iran/Persia, where Islamic art reached an extraordinary peak of perfection. We will look in particular at the stunning 10-fold rosette patterns, the use of the Golden Section in constructing these patterns and explore links between more recently discovered Penrosetilings and medieval Persian girih (knot) patterns. Students will learn to integrate these complex geometric designs with the family of Persian biomorphic motifs and explore more advanced

This Sunday we will draw this exceptional 17th cen

This Sunday we will draw this exceptional 17th century Safavid 8 fold pattern that lives under the Iwan at the entrance gate to the Sheikh Lotfollah in Isfahan. The body of the sumptuous bioficating spiral pattern is a series of reflecting isosceles triangles surrounding a central illuminated 16 fold peacock medallion.

Lotfollah Iwan Panel

Sunday 13th of June 2021
15:00- 18:00

Yesterdays class drawing by @adamwilliamsonart A

Yesterdays class drawing by @adamwilliamsonart

Appreciating everyone's drawings from the recent classes, we have come so far as a collective. Feeling honoured to be part of this journey that we have taken and the opportunity to travel so deep, searching for the essence. It’s been a truly unique time for the collective consciousness.

Ibn Tulun Stucco Soffits and all previous online class recordings can watched at your leisure via the online archive.

Sharing this perfect pearl from Isfahan on Sunday.

Sharing this perfect pearl from Isfahan on Sunday. Its effortless quintessence, an interplay between the ceaseless flow of the biomorphic and perfection of the curvilinear geometry which is only truly revealed when drawing the hidden tangents of the construction stages. Everything about this pattern comes naturally with ease, the ultimate sign of inspired design.

Experiences makes lasting impressions on your heart that don’t reveal themselves in the moment, it has taken years for the full spender of the Jameh Mosque of Isfahan to permeate my consciousness. I was so elated when I was there that I couldn’t contain the moment but the sophistication and intuition behind this flourishing of creative outpouring has no equal, a selfless pursuit of beauty.

The Intrados adorning the southern Iwan of Jameh Mosque of Isfahan
3pm UK Time, Sunday 16th May

The Intrados Like and arch spanning Eid, over a

The Intrados

Like and arch spanning Eid, over a short series of classes we will take in intrados patterns from Fez, Cairo through Istanbul and Agra to Isfahan and beyond.

The Intrados is the interior curve of an arch, adorning the passage or heavenly gateway. Vines spiral and flow from the arch apex bifurcating into blooming motifs.
Over three classes we will explore patterns from Fez, Cairo through Istanbul and Agra to Isfahan and beyond.

Classes can be taken individually

Part 1 –
INTRADOS – Court of Myrtles, Granada
We will draw Moorish stucco carvings from the The Court of the Myrtles within the Alhambra Palace and Al Attarine in Fez, Morocco.
3pm UK Time, Sunday 9th May
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Part 2 –
INTRADOS – Jameh mosque Isfahan
We will draw a pattern from the Jameh mosque Isfahan
3pm UK Time, Sunday 16th May
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Part 3-
INTRADOS – Ibn Tulun, Cario
We will tackle the famous carvings from the hyper-style arcades of Ibn Tulun
3pm UK Time, Sunday 30th May

Thirsty Ramadan Seljuq bricks hidden in the Jāmeh

Thirsty Ramadan Seljuq bricks hidden in the Jāmeh Mosque somewhere in the Grand Bazaar of Isfahān awaiting a restorative watery Safavid turquoise tile. But the remedy is the mortar that binds us.

Come draw this pattern from Sultan Hassan 3pm UK t

Come draw this pattern from Sultan Hassan 3pm UK time Thursday with @adamwilliamsonart We are following on from the ‘lions’ class, deep-diving into the roots of those distinctive cable loops.

Cables are the closed loops that join at points of local overlap by interlocking ‘knots’. The combination of loops and knots generates broad versatility for design ✨. We will get into the formative years of the Umayyads and the Roman–Byzantine influences on early Islamic Art and the late antique classical naturalistic tradition as well as the famous cosmati floor patterns of 13th century central Italy and parallels to the Mamluk architecture. 🔗 in the stories. See you there.

Live Jali carving class with @adamwilliamsonart wi

Live Jali carving class with @adamwilliamsonart with @thecreativedimension over the weekend.

@richardhenryart is currently teaching Jali carving course details on our website.

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)

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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.

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