Artist Spotlight Mawras Story of Art

This week CATF bring forth to you the tale of one of our most talented artist's journey into the realm of art and colors.

Mawra will be sharing with us her story of inspirations and achievements in her own words.



“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

-Pablo Picasso

I believe that in this world, almost every artist uses their practice to clean up their souls from ordinary mess. It is sometimes much easier to create when we are experiencing discord. Peace and contentment can dampen creativity.

The pavement I walked through was that of perceptions, emotions, thoughts and experiments which I term as experiences. This unity of experience traces the inner-self, which is actually me. Being a visual artist, “All is flux” is the notion that inspired me to explore my surroundings. I find pleasure in applying my knowledge in a multidisciplinary context, be it in making paintings, videos, and sculptures or applying it in interior spaces as an installation. I enjoy conceptualization for feasible concepts which focus on detail, aesthetics and environment-friendliness.

My bachelor in Fine arts drew my attention towards visual arts. At the same time, I was curious to observe the general influence of globalization on art, architecture and culture. Therefore, after completing the PGD in Visual Arts, now I am doing M Phil in Communication and cultural studies from National College of Arts. Definitely, all of these subjects have broadened my vision towards critical thinking and writing.

However, when I am creating I enjoy exploring how my ideas can grow throughout the making process, in specific the close connection between materials, processes, concepts and creative thinking. My fragile mediums allow me to think with my hands, as the feeling of cloth, texture of leaves and thread under my fingers gives me the feedback I need.

With time, obsession of observing the nature has drawn my attention towards natural mediums. In my recent art practice I have experimented with multiple natural mediums to understand the changes it goes through with the passage of time.

To stress upon the phenomenon of “flux” I condensed my choice of plants to stemmed roses. I have frozen the transformation of roses on diverse stages to conserve the particular time and different phases of change. But despite of all the effort the phenomena of “flux” is still existent and all the experiences of change are just conserved in my mind. I admit that my passion is largely fueled by my desire to evolve, change, and try new things.

Passion for paintings and photography forced me to conserve the various stages of change in all material culture and to record how these changes occur. Furthermore, I have also captured in my paintings how carnivals, cultures, and architectures of all countries are affected by globalization. Also, my photographic documentations of historical palaces and crafts have donated me an extra insight into the background reasons for which architecture or crafts were made by ancestors and how it is ruined by descendants.