F. Zahra Hassan - Visual Artist

My training is in the Visual Arts of Islam with a special emphasis on Art of Book. I am trained in traditional Indo-Islamic, Mughal and Persian Painting.

"Beauty is an abstract reality that needs shape and form for its manifestation. The process of its’ intentional and purposeful manifestation through form, colour, pattern and shape is what I call Art". (Fatima Zahra Hassan)
Fatima Zahra Hassan is one of the early graduates of the innovative miniature painting program established at the National College of Art in Lahore. Having mastered the age-old technique, Hassan set for herself the much more daunting task of infusing her work with the same perennial spirituality that emanates from the best of the Islamic miniature tradition. The artist explored the link between art and mysticism further while pursuing her Masters at the Royal College of Art and then Ph. D. at The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts in London. Currently a professor of fine art in the United Arab Emirates, Hassan continues to paint and show her work in Europe and the Middle East. (Valerie Behiery, Islamic Art historian - Islamic Art Magazine).