Amazigh Cultural Tours International & Zig Zag Tours Morocco

05/11/2024

Storks nests in Morocco are always perched atop of a variety of structures and often on the top of mosques! The nests are huge, as are the birds and the tiered spire of the mosque acts as an anchor.

04/11/2024

Victoria Findlay Wolfe made a wonderful presentation about her work and the project she will lead for this tour. We will be creating a ‘memory quilt’ which will be a small textile based work incorporating fabric, appliqué, stitching, embroidery and drawing. We will be drawing inspiration from our travels through Morocco gathering images, motifs and design elements as we go.

03/11/2024

Our first full day in Marrakech with our Textiles tour with guest artist Victoria Findlay Wolfe and a lovely group of art quilt enthusiasts. Here we are at Jardin Majorelle. Tomorrow we head south over the High Atlas Mountains!

01/11/2024

On the drawing board at my studio in Marrakech is a work in progress…drawing the immense view that I often photograph. Urban development makes it an ever changing landscape and this drawing has been on the go for several years as I grab a bit of time every now and then to work on it. Scroll across for some details. A sudden change prompted the red overlay of a new development that sadly took out an old grove of date palms and olive trees right in the centre of the composition!. It’s prime realestate…
The Senegal parrot was a rare visitor to the studio balcony during the pandemic.

31/10/2024

Farewell to our most recent Textiles Tour guest artist - seen here emerging from one of the narrowest passages in the Fes Medina! Hollis is a renowned artist whose work incorporates painting, dyeing and complex stitching. As we traipsed around Morocco Hollis led a group of art enthusiasts through some of the finer points of refining composition and design in image making. Scroll across to see some of her superb work.

31/10/2024

in Marrakech! Victoria is our next guest artist on tour in Morocco - here to explore the culture, landscape, history and TEXTILES!. We will be doing a lot of traveling from Marrakech over the - the high, the middle and the low! To the Sahara, Fes, Chefchaouen and more…
Meeting traditional artisans is a big focus.
Along the way we will create a ‘memory quilt’ under Victoria’s guidance - a small project to respond to the experience in a creative way. Travel with an arts focus - it’s a great way to bring together a gathering of likeminded people. We look forward to another great trip, the last for this season - autumn in Morocco.

22/10/2024

Sunset over the blue city of Chefchaouen 🤩

20/10/2024

There is still water on the ground in the Sahara 4 weeks after the rain. Such an unusual sight!

19/10/2024

Here we are in the Sahara with our latest Texiles Tour and guest artist Hollis Chatelain who took this fabulous photo!

Sunset in the Sahara!
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18/10/2024

Still looking great in the early morning light…

17/10/2024

My favourite place in Morocco - Skoura Oasis with 360 degree views of the High Atlas Mountains to the north and Jebel Sahro (Low or Anti Atlas Mountains) to the south. The air is crisp after some much needed rain.

14/10/2024

We are on the road again with our next tour and guest artist Hollis Chatelain.
We started in Marrakech doing a tour of the Medina, a few fabulous museums and are now heading south through the High Atlas Mountains.

06/10/2024

Sunrise over on the last day of our tour as we bid farewell to another wonderful group of creative travellers!

05/10/2024

Some of the wonderful pieces created on our Our last day today! Thanks to for her help as well as Bruce Derrick who both facilitated the process. Also .carnell chipped in! An online exhibition will be posted on our website with full acknowledgments soon.

30/09/2024

Flooding in the ! So strange to see water on the ground.
We are on the road with our Jewellery Tour

28/09/2024

A lovely post by one of our happy travellers, Sophie Carnell Silversmith
We are halfway through our Morocco Jewellery tour with Jill Hermans Abdenabi Imelouane our fearless Abdoul Tour Leader guide and Rita Lazauskas

26/09/2024

We are on the road again, this time with a favourite - our Jewellery Tour. Here is our gang at the YSL museum in Marrakech, our special guest artist Jill Hermans and a snapshot of the exuberance that can take hold of some of those on board!

15/09/2024

A Senegal parrot. This beautiful bird came to visit us in Marrakech during the height of the pandemic - twice! A welcome guest on our little balcony, it was a bit far north of its usual region. , , on paper (detail of a large drawing)