Whispers of a dream by Fatima Sherjan
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Medium: Acrylics on canvas
Dimensions: 140 x 140 cm
Year: 2025
Price: $3500.00 USD
Status: available
Whispers of a Dream drifts like a fading memory—fluid, layered, and softly dissolving into itself. Muted washes of blues and greys create a quiet depth, while delicate florals bloom in fleeting bursts, only to blur and disappear back into the canvas. In this gentle movement lies a reflection on life’s fragility and delicacy —how, like these blooms, we unfold, exist briefly, and fade—reminding us that beauty lives in its impermanence.
Why collect this work?
Broad blue-grey passages partially obscure brighter floral shapes, making concealment and reappearance the painting’s central formal action.
- Sherjan states that flowers signify hope, softness, and renewal in her practice. Here, those associations remain unsettled because the blooms appear fragmented or submerged rather than fully presented.
- In the photograph, a dense magenta form weighs the lower left, while smaller pink, green, and white marks collect near the edges. The relatively muted centre separates these garden-like fragments without resolving them into a bouquet.
- The catalogue identifies acrylic on canvas, a medium that can support the contrast seen here between broad opaque fields, thin linear marks, and sharper accents. The documented 140-centimetre square format gives no direction priority.
- Dated 2025, the painting provides a focused case for considering how floral imagery can persist through interruption. Its overlaps turn disappearance into a visible compositional process rather than merely an artist-stated theme.
About the Artist
Fatima Sherjan
Fatima Sherjan is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Dubai, PK.
Nationality: Pakistani
I am deeply drawn to nature, particularly flowers, for the sense of beauty, vitality, and joy they bring into everyday life.
