i haven't been to sharon and shakir's home so this gives me a good perspective on where the paintings are hung. their home gives my paintings a new life
I have been waiting so long for these and boy has the wait been worth it! I am so honored that my paintings hold such coveted spots in the sun-kissed home of Sharon and Shakir Abal. Thank you, Sharon and Shakir for sharing these wonderful photos with me and my friends. (more…)
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drinks & cigarettes
Another lovely surprise in my mailbox, this time from Laila Al-Hamad, who says, ‘The girls are keeping me company in my office, such a treat!’ I’m sure they love spending their time with you too, Laila. Thanks for the photo!
Filed under: Home, Paintings | Tags: armchair, Home, interior, leather, painting
two women and dancers
funky wave bench. i'm happy my painting sits above it
This is my painting, Thirty-Five Pages Front and Back from the Stories of Eves collection. It dwells in the home of my once-student/budding artist Rana Al-Bahar (who also does beautiful jewelry). In her e-mail she said, “Finally found the perfect spot in my living room. I see it every morning and night.”
It’s so awesome when I get these pictures out of the blue. It’s really cool when people deliver on promises to send me photos of my works in their new homes. Thank you, Rana, for starting my Eid off on this note.
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Filed under: Home | Tags: acquisition, hayat, homes, imad, interior, office, painting
'singing woman with a television', 2004, acrylic on canvas, 300 x 180 cm
This painting resides in the office of Imad Hayat, my brother Tareq’s friend and business partner. Thanks, T, for the photos!
Filed under: Cultural Re-Expressions 101, Home | Tags: acrylic, cultural re-expressions, painting
girl with doll
Over lunch, my brother Mohammed asked me if I knew who, from Inspire Advertising, bought one of my paintings from 2004′s Cultural Re-Expressions 101 exhibition. I told him that my memory doesn’t extend that far back. So he showed me this picture he took of one of my paintings outside the company’s offices, in the Alsaleh Building. It’s always exciting to hear when someone bumps into one of my painting! (more…)
Filed under: Home | Tags: acquisition, bojka, den, homes, interior, living, space
lucky eve
I get so excited when I see my girls again! Always. Eve moved in with my dear friends Mai Al-Nakib and Adeeb Abu-Ghazaleh last month. I found these photos in my mailbox this morning with a letter from Mai. She said: I’ve included a photo of eve up and one of eve before she was up, just hanging out in her new space. That photo also shows what eve sees when she turns her head away from her computer (which I’m sure she does late at night when no one’s looking). (more…)
Filed under: Home | Tags: eleven, homes, interior, portrait, possession, tape, yellow
ghena called her yellow tape portrait 'sophie'. i really like the name
This painting was very impersonally titled ‘eleven‘. It was part of my Yellow Tape Portrait collection. Thanks to Ghena El Hariri, she has a home and a name now: Sophie. What more can anyone ask for? About the placement of this painting, Ghena said, ‘Finally I managed to send you a photo of Sophie “fi sidr el dar”! Couldn’t cover up the AC shaft opening. We didn’t hang the AC for fear of Sophie catching cold”. Sophie, you are in a good home. Congratulations!
Filed under: Home | Tags: cherish, homes, interior, khaled al najdi, possession, savoring
ethel also owns a work by khaled al najdi
This is highly unconventional! But not surprising as it has been sent to me by my very eccentric friend Ethel Cooper, who bought my piece from the PrettyGreenBullet|The Exhibition show back in November. It took me a few seconds to figure out where it was. When I finally did, I realized that the framed watercolor and ink postcard is still in its parcel paper wrap. She said that since it was delivered, she has been saving opening it until the time is right. I’m actually glad she hasn’t opened it yet, it’s nice to know that my hard work wrapping it hasn’t been in vain. I do hope the time is right for you soon, though, dear Ethel.
If you want to see what is inside the wrapped parcel, click here. I once said that 8 times out of 10, the wrapping is more exciting than the gift inside… (more…)
Filed under: Home, My Studio | Tags: Home, interior, maysaa al-mumin, photography, possession, thomas modeen, waleed shaalan
maysaa al-mumin's fish. i love them!
I’m always waiting to receive photos of my works in their new homes (hint, hint to everyone who’s promised to send me a picture and hasn’t!). I do get so excited when I finally do. And then I thought: wait a minute, I’ve got my own little collection of paintings and photographs I’d like to share with the people whose works they are and everyone else who is interested in this sort of thing (and the people who promised to send me their pics and haven’t!).
There will shortly be a part II to this post because I’ve promised myself that I’d get some photographs framed and there’s a Sabhan Adam sketch that I absent-mindedly stored in one of my books while on the phone. (more…)
Filed under: Home, Potato Pictures | Tags: doha, Home, interior, maysaa al-mumin, painting, qatar, thomas modeen
i love the way, with so much to look at around tom and maysaa's living room, my girl is still staring right at the camera
One moment she was in my studio in Kuwait, and the next she was in an American SUV driven by Maysaa Al-Mumin en route to Doha, Qatar via Saudi Arabia. She’s now finally up on the Modeen living room wall. This painting, The Note, has seen many exhibitions and even traveled to Florence with me. It’s funny, however, how things work out and she ends up with two dear friends, far away but close. (more…)
Filed under: Home | Tags: dreams, homes, interior decor, Kuwait, letter, slide show, snail mail
my picture is the one in the bottom left hand cubby
Months and months ago, I mailed a letter locally via Kuwait’s post. My friend finally received the letter, a picture I did on May 14th titled Dream & the Nonsense. I love the way Nada has made the colors on her shelf work. Maybe it is merely coincidental that the babushka dolls and green, oval picture reflect the colors of my drawing, but I love the whole look, accident or not. (more…)
Filed under: Home | Tags: acquisition, acrylic, bedouin, dancers, homes, Kuwait, Paintings, sadu
Dr. Sullivan sent me this last night. He spread the pictures on the wall but felt they were lost, so he divided them by this sadu an ‘old bedouin woman who made it’ gave to him a few weeks ago. He says, ‘I say hello to the children every morning.’ That is so cool. (more…)
Filed under: Home | Tags: acquisition, acrylic, cairo, drum, interior design, Kuwait, maadi, painting
you're finally home
What a journey. About a month or two ago, my high school Spanish teacher, Mr. Duckett, e-mailed me. He liked my painting, Drum, and was interested in buying it. Of course I mentally jumped up and down with joy because it’s always great to find a home for my girls. I immediately, however, crashed because I thought: how on earth am I going to get the painting to Cairo? The most obvious route was to have the painting couriered to Cairo, but we were constantly obstacled by two pretty words which make up one awful phrase: red tape. Thanks to my Uncle Abdel-Salam, I was able to send my painting with him. Yesterday, she was finally united with her new keeper, Mr. Duckett.
Cross the bridge to see the rest of the flat that my drummer girl now shares with Peter Duckett. (more…)
Filed under: Home | Tags: acquisition, acrylic, design, ghadah, homes, interior, painting, portrait
because i am a bleeding woman, i have decided to gift myself this painting. it's mine and it looks great in my studio
Filed under: Home, ophelia | Tags: acquisitions, jamal abdel-rahim, Kuwait, ophelia, painting, Paintings, yousef oun
This morning I visited Ophelia. I have never done this before, just visited a painting of mine in it’s own right. It took my breath away when I spotted it as soon as I walked through Shatha Al-Qatami’s front door. But my first glimpse of Ophelia was through a mirror, which is what took me aback. I’m very directionally impaired and this sense of dislocation had me quite confused for a few seconds. It’s thanks to Shatha pointing at the actual painting that I found Ophelia looking regally over the dining area, a hostess awaiting her guests. (more…)
Filed under: Home, The Early Bird | Tags: color, drawings, Home, Kuwait, restaurant, sketches, The Early Bird
the early bird is a quaint, little restaurant with bite
Filed under: Home, Um Kulthum | Tags: acquisition, interior, Kuwait, painting, portrait, Um Kulthum
um kulthum presides over tareq and hanan's lounge. to her left is a lovely pot of orchids
to um kulthum's right is a painting by tareq titled 'inside out'. tareq and hanan have a very structured and modern home. i love the way um kulthum serves as a break in the linear aspects of tareq's painting and one of the windows to her left.
yasmine's sitting room
My brothers and sister love me. Enough to allow me to use their wall space instead of stacking my paintings in my studio. These are two of ten charcoal works I did over the summer. The poor things got warped in a wave of heavy humidity we had around August.
Filed under: Cultural Re-Expressions 101, Home | Tags: acrylics, contemporary, homes, interior, Kuwait, modern, painting, tradition, yelwa
yelwa, 2003, acrylic on canvas, 300cm x 179cm
This painting currently resides in Tareq’s office. I think it is my most travelled (within Kuwait and out) painting. It has yet to settle down in a permanent home. It is a little nomadic so I don’t see that happening in the near future. For now, it looks great where it is.
