An exhibition of Dr Mohsen Keiany’s recent paintings titled ‘Awaz-e-Munn’ was recently organised at the ArtScene Gallery.
An award-winning artist, Keiany has exhibited over 50 times internationally. He has exhibited 35 times in the UK and his work has been reviewed by the BBC and many other newspapers.
He now lives in Birmingham and is researching for his PhD thesis at the University of Central England. He meditates in front of the canvas and then feels his way around it, cultivating the painting from intensely energetic mental pictures and sensations. Captured in ecstatic colour and texture, his paintings show the essence of the Sufi idea of equilibrium in nature.
Perspective is treated as both plan view and horizontal. There is little or no foreground. Colour illuminates – it does not heat or cool. Shadow is omitted and figures are spiritual – ghostly, tortured, decaying or dead. Sometimes mosaic or stained-glass lines hold up the painting.
Photos courtesy ArtScene Gallery
