Studio Diaries

These writings are not explanations, but companions to the work.

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A room with several paintings, some displayed on easels and a folding screen. There is a wooden table and a leather couch, with a telescope near the window. Natural light filters through white curtains.

Painting resilience, memory, and place through colour and texture.

My work explores emotion through colour, texture, and form, moving between abstraction, nature, and place. Each piece is part of an evolving journey shaped by lived experience, cultural memory, and the quiet strength that emerges from transformation.

Each work is carefully considered and original. If you’d like high-resolution images, installation mockups, or information about framing options, contact me.”

Portal Horse & Golden Script
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Portal Horse & Golden Script

Lately, I felt drawn to experiment beyond my usual style, and Portal Horse and Golden Script emerged through that process. While both works move further into abstraction, they still carry the visual language that keeps returning in my practice — desert landscapes, storm energy, Wadi Rum, Petra, and the symbolic presence of the horse.

Even in these more intuitive, layered compositions, the horse remains deeply connected to Petra and the desert for me. These paintings feel like a shift, but not a departure — more like another way of speaking through the same inner landscape.

Both pieces were guided by instinct, mixed media, and the freedom to let meaning appear gradually. What emerged was movement, mystery, and a sense of becoming — shaped by memory, place, and the force of storm.

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Carried by the Wind
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Carried by the Wind

Studio Note — Carried by the Wind

Of all the works in Held by the Desert, this Wadi Rum inspired abstract painting resisted me the most. What began as a sandstorm study became a meditation on resilience, movement and endurance — until the camel emerged through the layers almost like memory.

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