What goes around swims around. Oh, what joy there is in drawing koi fish! The colours, the form, the grace, the stories marking the elegant bodies… Fish are one of the most fulfilling subjects to draw ...

Into mindfulness? Try creating a mandala. Mandala is a Sanskrit word meaning circle; the symbol is part of spiritual traditions and religions that include Hinduism and Buddhism. Something special ...

We humans have always had a fascination with the circle. We experience it throughout nature—in the spiral of the Milky Way, the orbiting planets, and the cycles of life itself. As children, we also ...

Dreams have been described as dress rehearsals for real life, opportunities to gratify wishes, and a form of nocturnal therapy. A new theory aims to make sense of it all. We humans have always had a ...

The compass loops across the thick cream paper, leaving a series of curving designs reminiscent of a spirograph doodle. But these delicate lines were not made by a children's toy, but by the hand of ...

The word mandala or ‘circle’ in Sanskrit, signifies the universe in all its oneness and innate completion. It has long since been accepted that the creation of Mandalas is a highly therapeutic form of ...

Andrzej Strumillo’s abstract painting Mandala X is a bit like a dying star shooting flames–a reminder of the high modernist period, when artists believed that abstraction had the power to provide ...