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two new paintings } silence of noise | the hardness (and softness) of sex
Posted on February 20, 2019 1 Comment
I created The Hardness (and Softness) of Sex a few weeks ago in an attempt to deconstruct (and possibly destruct) Eve. I wanted to experiment with unfamiliar shapes while further exploring my curiosity about colors and their relationship with each other. But also, it was a reaction to a book I had just finished: Resistance: […]
new painting } it’s you, not me
Posted on December 23, 2018 3 Comments
Sometimes men hurt me. No. Many times men hurt me. But most of all I hurt myself. And it’s now time to fix this slightly chipped Ghadah, seriously. I’m seeing a therapist and I’m approaching my healing process (the one I should’ve started six or so years ago) with the gusto of someone about to […]
new watercolor painting } colorful woman/the psychology of rainbows
Posted on August 24, 2017 Leave a Comment
I’ve been feeling rather rainbow-ish lately. I’ve always loved a good rainbow; they’re so exciting to spot and so rare in this part of the world. But they’re also a throwback to the early 80s, an era in which their popularity in sartorial culture soared. I owned everything rainbow: rainbow shoelaces, rainbow-handled tote-bag, rainbow wig. […]
ego of eve
Posted on June 17, 2017 4 Comments
A few days ago I saw a post on Instagram that inspired me to create a massive papier-mache Eve head.Â
new painting } come in/come close/come together
Posted on November 25, 2016 Leave a Comment
All I’m going to say about this painting is that I miss companionship.
new painting } the eves and thilo
Posted on October 23, 2016 3 Comments
I finished this painting around ten days ago, and instead of photographing myself with it as I usually do with my finished paintings, I wanted to share that fun with a few of the special women in my life. Thanks to my sister Yasmine for thinking about asking her colleague photographer Thilo Mayer to take […]
new painting } eve to eve
Posted on September 23, 2016 3 Comments
I started this painting before my trip to London beginning of this month and let it marinate for a while until two days ago. I have made a promise to never end a painting until I love it, and I’m crazy about this one.Â
little cardboard paintings
Posted on July 27, 2016 7 Comments
I nearly threw this origami packaging cardboard into the recycling basket. I’m glad I didn’t.
new painting at CAP’s artist studio
Posted on May 19, 2016 Leave a Comment
So I have officially started work on my upcoming exhibition, tentatively titled Until Love, at the Contemporary Art Platform in Kuwait, January 2017. To paint my first four large scale paintings, they are kindly allowing me to use their ‘artist’s studio’. I’ll do the rest of the paintings at home.
my private little arab spring
Posted on April 17, 2016 2 Comments
To put this post in perspective, a quick backstory here.
new painting } notes float
Posted on March 2, 2016 2 Comments
Listen to Fuel to Fire by Agnes Obel }
new painting } d’s message in her hand
Posted on February 18, 2016 5 Comments
I just got back from London. There, I almost met a man. This man presented me with a beautiful face and an online personality so compatible with mine. And I filled in the rest to create a new muse for myself. He has no idea how much he has inspired me to paint like a curious child […]
new painting complete } eve the sun
Posted on February 4, 2016 5 Comments
She’s done and delivered. All she needs now is visitors. She’ll be at Dar.Nur until she finds a home. See her history here. Listen to Conjure One’s Center of the Sun featuring Poe:
new painting on the table
Posted on January 25, 2016 1 Comment
I’ve been wanting to paint a large scale piece for a while now. Around two weeks ago I finally started one. I didn’t get it stretched because a. I don’t have much space to work upright on anything of that scale and b. I honestly thought it wouldn’t be the great challenge it’s proven to be. […]
bringing baby to the dark side
Posted on August 28, 2015 Leave a Comment
It’s Friday. I was inspired. And then baby showed up. I got him into a black turtle neck and we started our little shoot. He was a natural. In fact, he was so ‘Come on, Vogue’ I could hardly keep a straight face. The guy’s a pro, just like his Aunty G.
new commissioned painting in progress } paul newman
Posted on July 26, 2015 Leave a Comment
Last May or June I was commissioned by my brother to paint a portrait of Paul Newman. His only conditions were that he wanted the painting to be large and that Paul Newman was wearing his Rolex Daytona watch. So in effect, this is a double portrait. Anyway, Paul wasn’t that big of a challenge. The watch […]
until love } nineteen
Posted on July 25, 2015 3 Comments
Well, it says ‘nineteen’ but since these photos I made two more, despite my not allowing myself to. But like I said, ‘Until Love’.
for instagram
Posted on May 9, 2015 Leave a Comment
Every now and then I put a little effort into an Instagram shot. This isn’t perfect, but the thing I like about Instagram is its ‘homemade’ aspect, and I’m a homemade kind of girly.Â
new painting on a friday morning
Posted on March 20, 2015 5 Comments
Sometimes I just want to paint. It was one of those days (yesterday) that I actually went through my storeroom rummaging for stretched canvases. I found this one. There was a painting of an apple on it, which wasn’t pretty enough to render it worthy of not being painted over. This morning I finished the painting. I’m not completely ecstatic […]
