October 2024​

Welcome to my website, a hub of all things Islamic Geometry!

See what I've been up to in my NEWS section or join me in-person or online:

​Regular monthly In-person workshops in the UK

This month, my monthly workshops resume at Harrow Arts Centre, Cass Art Kingston & OPEN Ealing  All three of my venues host 3 hour drawing & painting workshops. The same pattern being taught at each venue each month. I love my workshops, teaching in-person is something I benefit from hugely and enjoy so very much with the lovely mix of beginners and regulars. It's the complete teaching/learning feedback loop that is the oxygen I run on.  

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Upcoming In-person & online workshops 

This Autumn I'll be doing an ONLINE Introduction to Islamic Geometry at Ardington School and excitlingly I'll be doing an online workshop at the V&A in November on Sixfold Jaalis!

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​​​Affordable & free ONLINE learning

I regularly teach LIVE online monthly via my  creator page on Patreon, it's a beautiful international online community, one of the best aspects of my work! You can see how it works and what I've previously taught here  and you can join for as little as US $4 a month: Learn to draw a new pattern each month, attend 2 Zooms + their recording + a step by step PDF guide. If you enroll on an annual membership you get 10% off! 

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If you want to try out something FREE, you can get started here to access the many resources to keep you dabbling in this intriguing world of Islamic Geometric Patterns wherever you are in the world, whatever your budget. I offer many free resources & links:  ​50 + Tutorials on YouTube, with a series on Five & Tenfold Patterns and Twelvefold patterns,  as well as  resources suitable for Kids & beginners, book reviews, equipment & materials recommendations and links to many free resources online from other talented geometers & artists too.

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I also created two affordable & practical recorded online courses on Udemy, you can view video demonstrations along with accessing step by step PDFs to enable you to draw, trace, tile, transfer and paint Islamic Geometric Patterns.

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My good friend Dr Esra Alhamal and I have taught together online, these are now available as recorded courses with PDFs: Virtual tour of Uzbekistan  and our previous course Elements of Mamluk Manuscripts 

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BESPOKE private, small group, school, univeristy or workplace in-person and online workshops, talks & tuition

This is the broadest of categories and the types of events I've been delivering seem to be getting more and more diverse, from corporate & co-living spaces to schools and universities and friendship groups and family occasions - both in person & online.

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Such a fun way to bring creativity into so many different worlds. So if it's something you'd like to do for adults or children please get in touch.  You can see some of what I've done previously here.  I also offer live video tuition via Zoom as well as in person workshops in my studio for those in and around London as well as internationally. For either, we can schedule sessions and cover topics, techniques and patterns from the world of Islamic Geometric Patterns & Design and beyond - bespoke to your needs.

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All the best from,

Samira

London, England, UK