Artist’s Biography:
Shazia Munir was born in Lahore, Pakistan. She completed her Graduation (2009) and Masters (2011) in Fine Arts from College of Art and Design with distinction from College of Art and Design Punjab University Lahore. She has participated in various national level group exhibitions (E-Exhibition [Online Group-Exhibition, 2020], Group Exhibition on Kashmir Day [Arranged by Pakistan national Council of the Arts Islamabad, February, 2020], 2 nd Alhamra National Exhibition [Organized by Alhamra Arts Council Lahore, November-2019], Stories Group exhibition [Arranged by Shakir Ali Museum Lahore, November-2019], Group exhibition [Arranged by MOOCA cafe Lahore, 2019], Visual Narrations of Punjab Group exhibition [Arranged by Tourism Development Cooperation of Punjab,April-2019] and “Konplay” [Group Exhibition arranged by Nukta studio Islamabad, March-2019].
Artist’s Statement:
Art for me is comfort of my heart through my eyes. My art is interpretations of my deepest thoughts and my strongest desires. It is my voice to express my observations and experiences through paintings rather than spoken. I paint my observations in the environment and particularly, the Mother Nature. My medium of work is oil paint with knife and I likes to uses oil paint and create impasto technique with knife in landscapes. The key element of my work is that I creates thick layers and textures with paint to reflect impressionism and realistic look in my work. I doing experimentation with raw wood panels and uses these panels as canvas. I paint landscapes which I personally observe and in my painting I highlight the colors and effects of light onto the raw wood panels and on the canvases through impasto technique.