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Nahem Shoa works in a spirit similar to many of the innovative artists of history, such as Bellini, Titian, Raphael, Goya, Picasso, Balthus, Spencer and Rego, who all like him painted oil portraits from life, as well as making allegorical, visionary paintings from their imagination. Shoa goes out in nature, making intense studies of trees and the surrounding landscapes, which he incorporates into his other worldly landscapes. This dual approach gives his visual language a richness, that can only be informed from working from observation.
Nahem Shoa is a 21st century painter, concerned with the big themes of today, diversity, humanity, climate change, with nature becoming more fragile each year. Shoa sees himself as a visionary painter, about the NOW.
Shoa’s large 3 metre paintings of nature, London, race are unlike any other artists’ work today, although he fits into a contemporary strand of painting by Peter Doig, Chris Ofili, Michael Armitage, Riu Matsunaga and Anj Smith. Shoa like these artists has been inspired by Gauguin, Munch, Bonnard, Mantegna, Durer and Bellini.
Nahem Shoa is a 21st century painter, concerned with the big themes of today, diversity, humanity, climate change, with nature becoming more fragile each year. Shoa sees himself as a visionary painter, about the NOW.
Shoa’s large 3 metre paintings of nature, London, race are unlike any other artists’ work today, although he fits into a contemporary strand of painting by Peter Doig, Chris Ofili, Michael Armitage, Riu Matsunaga and Anj Smith. Shoa like these artists has been inspired by Gauguin, Munch, Bonnard, Mantegna, Durer and Bellini.
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Tangible to In-Tangible. New work by Nahem Shoa. Article by Isobel Johnstone Curator of the Arts Council Collection 1979 - 2004
Nahem Shoa draws heavily on the current state of the world, climate change nature, trees, race, art history. The abstract, real, visible and hidden, harmonise together In these contemporary scenes that captures the zeitgeist of this present moment in history, and linger in our collective unconscious. Characters wear outlandish costumes, their faces hidden or they wear grotesque masks as if they are in some surreal spectacle.
