Upcoming courses and lectures
(Un)Folding Patterns: Paper Reflections
Dates: 1 – 29 October 2025
Tutor: Ricardo Hinojosa
Lecture: Discover the power of the ruling pen!
Dates: 9 October 2025
Indian Miniature Painting: Botanical Flower Paintings
Dates: 14 October – 18 November 2025
Tutor: Sam Buckley
Persian Miniature Painting: Zal & the Simurgh
Dates: 16 October – 20 November 2025
Tutor: Vaishali Prazmari
Interlocking Chiral Patterns of the Silk Road
Dates: Fri, 17 October – 21 November 2025
Tutor: Gillian Turnham
Masterclass: Mughal Miniature Painting
Dates: 20 – 24 October 2025
Landscape Painting in Watercolour: Turner, Cotman, Seago and Beyond
Dates: 27 – 31 October 2025
Tutor: Prasad Beaven
Film Screening & Director’s Introduction: ‘In Praise of the Artisan’
Dates: 29 October 2025
Islamic Manuscript Illumination: A Carpet Page from the Baybars Qur’an
Dates: 3 – 7 November 2025
Tutor: Mahrukh Bashir
Phenomenology of Folding Space-Time: Light & Islamic Patterns
Dates: 3 – 7 November 2025
Tutor: Ricardo Hinojosa
Painting in Egg Tempera: Imagining a Garden of Paradise
Dates: 10 – 14 November 2025
Islamic Calligraphy: Thuluth Script
Dates: 17 – 21 November 2025
Tutor: Gulnaz Mahboob
Manuscript Illumination: The Annunciation
Dates: 17 – 21 November 2025
Tutor: Hanna Ward
Lecture: Art & Enchantment
Dates: 20 November 2025
Islamicate Bookbinding: Make an Illuminated Book
Dates: 24 – 28 November 2025
Introduction to Carpet Weaving
Dates: 1 – 5 December 2025
Tutor: Shorsh Saleh
Persian Miniature Painting: King Solomon & the Queen of Sheba
Dates: 1 – 5 December 2025
Tutor: Sana Sanjrani
Icon Painting: Our Lady of Guadalupe
Dates: 8 – 12 December 2025
Tutor: Louisa Brouk
Kashan Inspired Tiles
Dates: 15 – 19 December, 2025
Tutor: Boris Aldridge
A Gilded Garden
Dates: 15 December 2025
Tutor: Ayesha Gamiet
Byzantine Icon Painting: Focusing on Colour
Dates: 12 – 16 January 2026
Japanese Woodblock Printmaking: Shōsōin Patterns
Dates: 21 January – 18 March 2026
Paint an Icon of Christ in the Style of Rublev
Dates: 2 – 6 February 2026
Tutor: Louisa Brouk
Islamic Calligraphy: Naskh Script
Dates: 2 – 6 February 2026
Tutor: Gulnaz Mahboob
Indian Miniature Painting: Scenes from the Hamzanama
Dates: 3 February – 17 March 2026
Tutor: Sam Buckley
Medieval Manuscript Illumination, Part 1
Dates: 7 February – 7 March 2026
Tutor: Helen White
Fantastic Beasts & How to Paint Them
Dates: 9 – 13 February 2026
Tutor: Ayesha Gamiet
Sienese Painting in Egg Tempera
Dates: 16 – 20 February 2026
Tutor: Lily Corbett-Gale
The Art of Woodblock Printmaking
Dates: 23 – 27 February 2026
Tutor: Merlyn Chesterman
The Spandrels of Hama
Dates: 27 February – 13 March, 2026
Tutor: Gillian Turnham
Elements of Persian Miniature Painting: Clouds
Dates: 4 March – 15 April 2026
Tutor: Vaishali Prazmari
Unravelling Cosmatesque Ornament
Dates: 4 March – 8 April 2026
Tutor: Magdalena Ganestam
Persian Miniature Painting: Plato Charms the Animals
Dates: 9 – 13 March 2026
Tutor: Vaishali Prazmari
Pictish Patterns
Dates: 9 – 13 March 2026
Islamic Manuscript Illumination: Painting a Şemse Medallion
Dates: 23 – 27 March 2026
Calligraphy: All Things Italic & Modern Pointed Pen
Dates: 20 – 24 April 2026
Tutor: Gaynor Goffe
Icon Painting: Paint an Archangel in the Medieval Style
Dates: 27 April – 1 May 2026
Egg Tempera: 17th Century Dutch Flower Paintings
Dates: 11 – 15 May 2026
Tutor: Lily Corbett-Gale
The Polychrome Paintings of Chinese Palaces
Dates: 18 – 22 May 2026
Tutor: Li Sha
Persian Miniature Painting: The Conference of the Birds
Dates: 8 – 12 June 2026
Painting a Head after Piero della Francesca
Dates: 20 – 24 July 2026
Tutor: Lily Corbett-Gale
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