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Ghadah Alkandari

Ghadah Alkandari

She is an artist living and working in Kuwait. She was born in India in 1969. In 1992, she received a BA in Mass Communications from the American University in Cairo. But it was her six-week painting course at the School of Visual Arts that shaped her current painting style, which was also influenced early on by both classical painters: Cezanne, Matisse, Schiele, Modigliani, and Klimt, and comic books: Mad Magazine, Archie, and Asterix.

Her body of work ranges from large-scale acrylic portraits to smaller, more intimate pen and ink drawings. Her paintings are primarily figurative, exploring the wide spectrum of human emotion and familial complexities. Whereas her paintings are visceral and highly personal, her sketchbook drawings are more detached and focus on everyday happenings, but with a twist. It is in these surreal drawings that you can see the influence of writers such as Barry Yourgrau and children’s author Shel Silverstein.

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