Graphite guidelines and soft water-colours trace a classic Anatolian 12-point star knot—blue bands interlace around a sun-yellow centre, while half-finished repeats fade into the background like a mirage (serap in…

Water-colour washes and graphite guides form a soft blue spiral—an Archimedean curve often used in Islamic manuscript margins to symbolise infinity. Four miniature songbirds, painted in the Ottoman rumi (split-leaf)…

Gouache and shell gold form an Ottoman-style shamsa (sun-roundel): a red six-petal star radiates through blue arabesque vines, all ringed by burnished gold bands and a scalloped floral cartouche. Three…

A water-colour and gouache rendering of the carved-stucco arch decoration on Marrakech’s 12th-century Kutubiyya Mosque. Warm sand and terracotta washes echo the mosque’s stone, while concentric circles, scalloped palmettes and…

Ink, gouache and shell gold build a 24-point starburst that echoes the blue-and-turquoise tile ceilings of Timurid mosques. Checkerboard bands and eight-point stars ring the mandala, while Chinese-style clouds and…

A slim ink-and-wash study of a Nasrid 10-point star lattice. A decagram at mid-height locks into repeating pentagons and rhombs, the warm ochre facets echoing the glazed tiles of the…

Gouache and ink on paper, this teardrop-shaped medallion borrows from 16th-century Safavid illumination. A black ground sets off swirling Chinese-style cloud bands (qabqalı) and curling vine scrolls, while a single…

Painted in gouache and shell gold on tinted paper, this miniature evokes the Qur’ānic garden of paradise (jannah). At the top, a radiant eight-point star—symbol of the eight gates of…

A palm-sized gouache miniature pairs a classic Persian 8-point star tile—washed in lapis blue, malachite green, and shell gold—with a single sparrow nestled among blossoms in the corner. Faint pencil…

Water-colour and pencil revive the blue-green zellij of the Mexuar Hall in the Alhambra. Five contiguous 8-point star blocks—each lifted from the Nasrid tile grid—shift from deep indigo to jade…