Über shari-art

My name is Shahrazad, and I live in Hout Bay, Cape Town.

A friend once asked, “How much of abstract art is actually chance?”
At first glance, flowing colors and emerging structures may seem accidental. But every line, every mark, every layer is either intentionally placed or consciously accepted. Nothing remains unless it feels right.
Opposites meet and interact: order and disruption, control and unpredictability, calm and intensity. Surfaces may appear quiet, yet cracks and textures reveal underlying tension. Raw, reduced tones stand beside metallic elements like gold, copper, or bronze. Beneath visible layers, depth and complexity emerge. They reflect processes, experiences, and the coexistence of contrasts. Each painting becomes an expression of an inner landscape shaped by contrasts. I work with acrylic paints and often create landscape paintings, though they are not intended as realistic representations. My works are abstract mood pieces. They emerge from places I have travelled to and from the impressions these landscapes have left within me. In my paintings, I am concerned with the atmosphere, memory, and emotion connected to a place. I try to capture the emotions I experienced (not only) in these locations: vastness, stillness, heat, wind, grounding, or sometimes unease. Colour plays a central role in this process. It represents light, temperature, scents, and moods, elements that cannot be fixed in form, but can be expressed through fields of colour and texture.