Solo show of Shazly Khan’s paintings

LAHORE

Shazly Khan, born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is a brilliant young artist who has brought her best works for the pleasure of the art lovers and the general public to a solo exhibition, to be inaugurated at The Collectors Galleria at 5.30pm today (Thursday).

About herself and her art, Shazly Khan says “Being highly sensitive, it breaks my heart to see humanity suffer. I celebrate life and intentionally divert one's attention away from the sufferings and turbulent world. Storytelling of real life characters, painting everyday occurrences and subconscious desires in fairy tale backgrounds are the primary focus of my paintings”.  She says “Family, friends, society and bonding, having a cup of tea take main stage where highly precious moments of daily life elevate from mundane statue to the level of celebration, even to a level of rituals.

I sacrifice facial expressions, investing heavily in compensating this major artistic time proven tool with highly animated bodily expressions. Playing skillfully on the manipulation of scale, gestures and exaggerated proportion to get the message across.

I experiment with many techniques to achieve the desired result, painting passionately, using acrylics, creating textures, rendering with brushes, fingers, knife palettes building up layers, etching and scraping colours, preferring acrylics.

Creating bold lines, spontaneous strokes, balancing vibrant colours."  She states that she meditates through her paintings and hopes to bring some inner peace to her viewers too.