Abdullah Ali

A remarkably talented artist hailing from Mirpurkhas, Pakistan, Rustam is the leading charcoal sketch artist. His unparrelled attention to details has won him recognition worldwide. Rustam’s artworks focus on portraits, still life and realism.

Sadaf Farasat’s paintings revolve around Sufism and are influenced by Rumi’s poetry exploring mysticism and devotion. Her artworks usually depict twirling dervishes, depicting movement, exploring the purpose of existence, searching for divine love and through the journey of life. The smooth yet powerfully assertive motion of the twirling dervishes reflect the cycle of pain and pleasure. Sadaf explores the mystical traditions of various cultures and renders them masterfully on larges canvas using bright colors.

Ali Abbas is a leading master in watercolor. He has won several awards worldwide and has participated in several juries and workshops. Watercolor as a medium is difficult to work with but Ali Abbas’s artworks, each a masterpiece, exhibit the artist’s ease and confidence. Each of his artworks are intensely detailed capturing the viewers attention.

Shaista is a self-taught artist who believes that an artist draws inspiration from beauty in human form and from expressions. Her canvases encapsulate women, nature’s most beautiful and complete creation and encaptures their great strength in tolerating pain with a smile. The pigeons or musical instruments such as a flute or sitar in her painting are symbolic of freedom of speech and a woman’s desire to be free. The jewelry on the women while giving the deception of beauty are actually symbolic of chains and restrains, which restrict them from being free.