Education     

Figure Drawing/Oil Painting     1997     Parsons School Of Design, New York.

Figure Painting in Oils               1997    Art Students League, New York.

Drawing & Painting Apprentice/Assistant 1996-2001     Artist Iqbal Hussain

Oil Painting                                   1996                        Lahore Art Gallery.

Print Making                               1994-1995      Gandhara Studio, Islamabad.

B.A. English Literature (Honors)   1993                Lahore Grammar College.

Foundation Courses Fine Arts    1991- 1992           National College of Arts, Lahore

 Exhibitions

2009         National Art Gallery, Islamabad, 23^rd Annual Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts (National Show), (Catalogue), Artist’s Association of Punjab and Punjab Council of the Arts, Lahore

2009                Vogue Art Gallery, Lahore, An Encounter with Nature.                   

2009                     23^rd Annual Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture and  Graphic Arts (National Show), (Catalogue), Artist's Association of Punjab and Punjab Council of the Arts, Lahore

2004                  Emerging Artists, Crow Eaters Art Gallery, Lahore

2002                   17^th National Exhibition 2002-Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Arts (Catalogue), Artist's Association of Punjab, Lahore.

1998                  13th Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts (Catalogue, Artist's Association of Punjab, Lahore.

1997                   Solo Exhibition, Young Professionals Association of Pakistan, New York.

                            National Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture and Graphic Arts in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Pakistan. (Catalogue), Artist's Association of Punjab, Lahore.

                          Exhibition of Drawings, Water Colours and Pastels (Catalogue), Artist's Association of Punjab, Lahore.

1994-1995                  Women Artists in Pakistan, Pakistan National Council of Arts, Islamabad.

                                     Young Artists' Exhibition, Pakistan National Council of Arts, Islamabad.

                                    Annual Exhibit, Gandhara Studio, Islamabad.

Commisions

 1997                               Visuals for Gender Training Program, Kashf Foundation, Lahore

1994                            Visuals for Annual Calendar , Siza Pharmaceuticals, Lahore

2002                            Designed Government Website for Sialkot ,  AOS, Lahore

Bibliography

 "Work by Ten Artists", Daily Times, Site Edition, May 14, 2004.

Rana Javed Iqbal, "Paintings Depicting Problems of the Down Trodden", The News, September 16,1994

Mussarrat Nahid Imam, "Bright Side of the Moon", The Nation, September 23, 1994                 

Huma Masroor,  "Preserving the Work of Young Artists", The Nation, August 18, 1994

Publications

"The Preserver of a Traditional Heritage-Bashir  Ahmed", The Nation, December, 1998                          

"Contemporary Artists Make History", The Friday Times, 12 June,1998                  

Current Gallery Representation

Native Art Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan

Hamail Art Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan

 Vogue Art Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan

Galleria 919, Karachi, Pakistan

Artists' Association of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

 
  
Statement    
  
 

My work today is the result of several years of training, learning and experiencing, not only painting but the artistic process and its interaction with life, which involves deep perception and compassionate understanding of life and their application through the practice of art. Painting for me is not simply a mode of expression: I endeavor for the artistic process to encompass my spiritual, emotional, and intellectual being, leading to its continuous development and consequent expression for communication--I believe my art is meaningful only if it connects with people in terms of significant emotive communication.

The major inspiration in my work is the human form: in every face and every figure I perceive an experiential saga-narrating the sufferings, pleasures, joys, relationships and tragedies of human life. As an artist what interests me is the silent communication that takes place with my subject wherein a plethora of feelings is communicated at an unsaid level, which, I aim to internalize and transfer onto my canvas, not as bold verbal statements but subtle emotive sensations for the viewer. Not restricting myself to a particular style, I tend to rely on my intuition, my state of mind at the time I am painting. The crucial thing for me is to capture and transfer onto my canvas the mood, the expression, the inner meaning of a situation or environment.

Art, for me, like nature itself, is a creative and evolving process; I only strive to be a useful part of this process by continuing to learn it for what it is, discover it as it is and grow with it.

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