Artist Shazia Mahmood

Shazia Mahmood is a sea and landscape artist who has been exhibiting and selling world-wide for over twenty-five years. Her work depicts the contrasting coastlines of West Sussex and the Scottish highlands.

Through the year of experimentation and pushing boundaries, Mahmood discovered creative ways to apply paint – rarely is a brush her go-to tool. The beginning of paintings often abstract, fluid and chaotic.

Mahmood’s overall vision as an artist is to create a painting that resonates with the viewer. Her hope is to evoke and emotional reaction and an instinctive connection. With clever and skilful manipulation, she hopes the paint and place work together to create a natural synergy.

The inspiration for Mahmood has always been about capturing the light on the land or sea. She can be obsessive about capturing that one moment in time. The dramatic beams at certain times of the delay that incredible moments of light within a seascape or landscape.

 

Education

1996-1997 M.A. European Fine Art - Winchester School of Art

1993-1996 B.A. Fine Art Painting (2:1)

1991-1993 National Diploma in general Art & Design (Merit)

Reigate School of Art and Design

Exhibitions

2012

Scotlandart.com

The Castle Gallery, Inverness

Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge New work Cornwall

2011

Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge. Solo show, April 30 - MayAberdeeen Art Fair, represented by The Castle Gallery.

Wey Gallery, Godalming

Greens and Blues, North Berwick

2010

Glasgow Art Fair, represented by The Castle Gallery.

Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge - Summer exhibition.

2009

Greens and Blues, East Lothian - April 3-26

Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge. Summer exhibition - July-August

The Castle Gallery, Inverness. Solo show - October 3

The Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford

The Fairfax Gallery, Tunbridge Wells

Art in the City, Glasgow

Kranenburg Fine Art, Oban

Roman Black Gallery, Fulham Road, London

2008

Solo show, Ireland, May 2008. Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford

Mixed show, Thompsons Gallery, Aldeburgh

Mixed show, Cambridge Contemporary Art

Mixed show, Fairfax Gallery, Tunbridge Wells

Mixed show, Roman Black Gallery, London

Mixed show, Mansfield Park Gallery, Glasgow

Mixed show, Castle Gallery, Inverness

Mixed show, Art in the City, Glasgow

2007

Solo show, Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge

Mixed show, Carby Gallery Aberdeen

Mixed show, Castle Gallery, Invernes

London Art Fair 2007, Roman Black Gallery

20/21 Royal College of Art, Red Gallery

Holkham Paintings, Cambridge Contemporary Art

Glasgow Art Fair, Castle Gallery

Art In the City, Glasgow

Art Ireland, Dublin, Red Gallery

Solo Show, Cambridge Contemporary Art

2006

Art London, Roman Black Gallery, London

Mixed show, Fairfax Gallery, Tunbridgewells

Landscape show, Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge

Solo show, Castle Gallery, Inverness, Scotland

Mixed show, Carby Gallery Aberdeen

Mixed show, The Torrance Gallery, Edinburgh

Mixed show, The Roman Black Gallery, Fulham London

Mixed show, The Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford

Private Collections

American Bureau of Shipping, London

Npower, London

Darent Valley Hospital

Frontline Communications Group