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Light vs Dark

“As an artist with his own ‘calling’ to paint, Noor decided to travel on this journey by self-educating himself in the processes and techniques that most artists learn in professional art institutions. Over the conversation, he counted 300 art books…

The Creative Revolution

Advertising was the biggest art form practiced in the eighties and nineties. And it was like the womb for many other disciplines like film, writing, music, and other Fine Arts. Salman Rushdie was an advertising copywriter for many years before…

The divine loneliness

We ALL are alone within because we are born alone and die alone. Even the twins have this, they can have entirely different or same outlooks but that existential aloneness is very much the part of each of us. What…

The Spirit of Endurance

Life is not about the security of livelihood, but to have lived true to your calling or purpose. When someone gets excited and says I will go through whatever, and then lives up to it, then they embark on the…

Why be an Artist?

Why does society not encourage the profession of an artist? What’s the core issue? Why is it frowned upon traditionally speaking? These are tough questions but need to be answered. The very simplistic answer to this very deep-sounding question is…

The Anatomy of a HeArtist

For some unknown reason, I have always considered myself to be “heartist”, a hybrid word that I thought to have invented myself a couple of decades ago, to best describe and understand myself. I was always being led with the…

A Tale of Two Studios

After spending six months in Oman, where I’d become tanned as if the sun had repainted me so to speak, I then decided to go to the UAE. Within a few months, I’d found a home studio from which to…

The Art Journey Begins

I’d come to Oman on an unintended sabbatical of sorts. It was December 2001 and soon found myself diving with a friend who had a diving company. I learned how to dive, and spent several hours cut away from the…