The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts

Understanding Tradition as a process of continual renewal is the main concern of The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts. It seeks inspiration from the universal and timeless principles that are at the root of the world’s great traditions whilst creating artwork that is always of its time and place: an integration of the contemporary and the timeless.

The School is unusual in that it teaches both the practice and theory of the traditional arts at post-graduate level; the University of Wales validates its Masters and Doctoral programmes. The staff, students and alumni are of many nationalities, cultures and faiths as well as craft skills and come from as far a field as Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Jordan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Greece, Colombia, Russia and America, as well as the United Kingdom. They are united by the profound awareness that there is a common principle that transcends all of humanity and is reflected in the traditional art, architecture and craft of the world’s civilisations.

In the past few years, the experience and knowledge acquired over a quarter of a century of education in the traditional arts and crafts has been extended both nationally and internationally. Through its now well-established Outreach Programme, the School’s message has reached far and wide, from workshops in London with the Victoria & Albert Museum and Shakespeare’s Globe Education to numerous schools across the United Kingdom, as well as programmes abroad such as those in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture in Egypt and the British Council in Nigeria.