Looking at art informed by Islam and the Muslim world and made in Britain, also art from around the Muslim world that is showcased in Britain.

Art in the widest sense will be considered including Visual, Applied and Decorative, Musical, Vocal, Performance, and those people who create the art in whatever capacity as Artists, Artisans, Craftsmen, Professional, Amateur, Hobbyist. Also of interest is the discourse of historical, contemporary and future development of British Muslim Art.

Above all this blog is about the joy and appreciation of beauty.

Thursday, 10 May 2012

Kenneth Ainsworth Ahmed Mukhtar is a designer and maker of Islamic tilework known as Zillij.

I went to visit Ken Ahmed at his home and workshops near Bethnal Green in East London where he has lived for about 30 years. Though he is originally from Stoke-on-Trent which can sometimes still be heard in his accent.

He also embraced Islam many years ago and studied a degree in contemporary western art before discovering the beauty to be found in the Islamic patterns of the traditional Muslim world.
Alongside learning the Arabic of the Holy Quran which he reads everyday, Ken Ahmed has learnt the geometry that is the extraordinary language of the Zillij tilework that he makes in his workshops.
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