Geometry

During lockdown I happened on an online course taught by Tom Bree via West Dean. Loved it, and have been doing other online, and in-person, courses at the Prince's School of Traditional Arts, and following a few tutorials available on youtube and via websites. 

Most recent was a week-long course on five-fold geometry, taught by Mohammed Aziz. For four days we followed instructions to make ever more difficult patterns, and on the fifth daydid a less complicated one, and had time to add colour to the pattern. Ten-pointed stars are built up from a circle divided into five - using just compass and ruler, no numbers of any kind -

Colouring in -

Drawing a section of the pattern, which was then traced and transferred ten times to make the entire pattern -

Here are some I prepared earlier - the first is based on a pattern known as "pajaritos", little birds -

My workspace in Cheltenham is very like my workspace in London

An experiment in painting

Basic pattern (with stars instead of hexagons)

Inspiration - a tiled wall in the Alhambra

Variations on a starry theme -

Something a little more complicated

Finished

Evolving

Trying out colour schemes on patterns -

From a series of online lessons taught by Lisa DeLong

From the eight-fold symmetry online course taught by Tom Bree

Also from Tom Bree's course

Another early course was based on the windows of Ibn Tulun mosque, taught by Katya Nosyreva. These are works-in-progress from that series -

Some patterns have found their way into (onto?) woodblocks -

Some of these "flowers" received stitching to bring out the pattern