Japanning Fairytales with Tuesday Riddell
Last episode of season 4 is with Tuesday Riddell and we talked about Japanning and how she specialised in it and the nature that inspires he...
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Art Illuminated
Art Illuminated is an art dedicated podcast about traditional art and artists from the Middle East and North Africa
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Gemstones With Geometric Patterns with Bryan Drummond
Bryan Drummond is a goldsmith and specialises in gem cutting creating stunning geometric patterns on a lot of the gems he works on. They are...
Floral Embroidery with Olga Prinku
Olga Prinku is a designer, maker and creator of flowers on tulle embroidery. She invented the technique of flowers on tulle embroidery, usin...
Exploring and learning patterns with Lizzie Hobbs
Artist Lizzie Hobbs is an award winning Manchester based artist, who studied South Asian studies and Hindi and continued with her arts and o...
Glass Sculptures and Recycling with Hannah Gibson
Hannah Gibson is a glass artist and we talked about making glass sculpture from sustainable and recycled materials. Hannah is also a geologi...
Indian Miniature & Devotional Portraits with Murad K. Mumtaz
Assistant Professor Murad K. Mumtaz is a Pakistani artist and researcher based in the US and currently teaching South Asian arts at the Will...
Needlepoint Inspired By Islamic Tiles with Natalie Fisher
Natalie Fisher is a n eedlepoint artist based in Sydney and her work is inspired by Islamic architecture. She shares how she fell in love wi...
Painting Botanical and Nature Art with Shevaun Doherty
Shevaun Doherty is an Irish botanical artist, who raises environmental awareness through her art. We talked about Shevaun's journey into bot...
Cosmology, Miniature and Spirituality with Annelie Solis
Annelie Solis is a Trinidadian artist that graduated from the Prince's School of Traditional Art in London. We talk about her journey into a...
Traditional and Modern Calligraphy with Paul Antonio
Paul Antonio is the author of 'Copperplate Script - A Yin&Yang Approach'. A new and innovative way to look at and learn to write copperplate...
Stone Carving, Masonry & Sculpting with Miriam Johnson
This week's guest is Miriam Johnson, who tells us all about her practice in stone carving, masonry & sculpting. Images from this episode are...
Persian Miniature and Identity with Laila Tara H
Laila Tara H is an Iranian miniature artist exploring new ways of painting miniatures and identity within. Images from this episode on: http...
Q&A with Samira Mian on art, life & patterns
Samira and I are chatting in this episode about how we met, our lives in art, self taught vs self study, pricing artwork and of course food...
Persian Miniature and Illumination with Farkhondeh Ahmadzadeh
Farkhondeh is an Iranian artist based in London. Her work explores the disciplines of Persian poetry manuscripts, sacred geometry and Persia...
Somali Textiles with Hafza Yusuf
Hafza Yusuf is a Somali-British textile designer, Art educator and founder of Hafza Studio. https://www.instagram.com/hafzastudio/ Pictures...
Henna and Creative Outlets with Medina Trevathan
Medina Trevathan is a henna artist and a young creative finding her own creative outlet and artistic voice through henna, embroidery and mor...
Woven Textiles with Rezia Wahid
Rezia Wahid is a woven textile artist and hand weaver specialising in natural yarns. She is inspired by air, light and poetry. We chat about...
Realistic Sculptures with Faisal Alahmad
Faisal Alahmad is a Saudi American sculptor and works with realistic human features and the human form. He tells us about his journey into b...
Islamic Geometry and Peace of Mind with Sandy Kurt
Sandy Kurt has been practicing complex Islamic geometry painted in watercolours for over 5 years and she shares how she learnt and continue...
Painting the Palestinian Identity with Sliman Mansour
Sliman Mansour is an iconic figure in contemporary Arab art and in the Palestinian Intifadh. He is a political artist representing the Pales...