RESOURCES
The Princes School of Traditional Arts
INSPIRING ARTISTS
Ayesha Ahmad – She draws the bulk of her influence from Islam’s reverence of nature, and her personal affinity with earth: natural textures, flora, seasons and the intricacies of it all.
David Cranswick – For David, the physical world is a doorway through which one accesses the mysteries of the inner world. it is through the alchemy of the union of these inner and outer realities that the real beauty of a subject is revealed
Max Gimblett – For the last 36 years, New Zealand-born painter and ordained Buddhist monk Max Gimblett (born 1935) has been working out of the same painting studio on New York’s Lower East Side.
Aidan Hart – An ordained Reader of the Greek Orthodox Church living in Britain, Aidan has been a professional icon painter and carver for over twenty-five years. Born in Auckland, New Zealand.
Julia Morison – Julia is an avid researcher, devouring ancient and contemporary writings – from Euclidian geometry, the legacies of constructivism and formal abstraction, through to interrogation and re-imagining of alchemy, number symbolism and in particular the Jewish mystical tradition called Kabbalah.
Adam Williamson – Adam is an award winning sculptor and painter. A Sufi, his works are produced using natural materials and traditional tools and techniques.
Sue Viner – The experience gained by years of working as a restorer and conservator has given Sue a deep appreciation and interest in traditional gilding and painting techniques which date back to medieval times and beyond, but still have a valid and valuable contribution to offer contemporary art.
Antonia di Lorenzo – Contemporary Medieval Explorer
VIDEO/MEDIA ARTISTS
Maya Deren – Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)
Maya Deren – The Very Eye Of Night (1958)
Peter Greenaway: Leonardo’s Last Supper (2010) – 45′ Art Installation
Shahzia Sikander
Sikander incorporates aesthetic debates of popular iconography and contemporary cultural theory into her work
GALLERIES
Gaylene Anne Barnes 