Iraqi Fine Art: Contemporary Paintings
Light lives
in memory
Paintings rooted in the landscape, color, and everyday beauty of Iraq, rendered for the world.
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Portrait study, 2023
About the artist
Light, memory,
pigment
Hind Najim is an Iraqi painter and translator whose work draws from the colors of the Mesopotamian plain: the burnt sienna of ancient mud walls, the deep blue of the Tigris at dusk, the warm gold of afternoon light on stone.
النور لا يُرى، يُحَسّ فقط
"Light is not seen; it is only felt."
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I paint what I cannot carry with me, the weight of a city, the color of a river, the light of a place that lives now only in memory.
Hind Najim
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