Sharjah- A Ballad of love and poetry by Nasha Maryam
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Medium: Acrylics on canvas
Dimensions: 160 x 60 cm
Year: 2026
Price: $1200.00 USD
Status: available
'Sharjah, A Ballad of Love and Poetry' Proud to be in a city which is more of culture and heritage than city lights! I have wondered around the popular tourist landmarks of Sharjah and also the hidden gems, caught the earliest rays of sunlight and also beautiful sunsets! To paint just a small part of a city I love is not fair, while I keep the treasured places more close to my heart! I’m a day dreamer, a poet, a lost wayfarer and a traveler in this city and yet belonging here completely! A city wherein is my home! Captured herein my painting is my recurrent longing to be in the Najd Al Maqsar mountain homes, Khor Kalba Mangroves and the Mleiha Fossil rock dunes!
Why collect this work?
A compressed panorama joins dunes, mountain architecture, mangroves and storm-lit plains, turning Sharjah into a composite landscape shaped by attachment rather than continuous geography.
- Nasha Maryam describes landscape painting as a way of connecting with memories of places where she has lived. Here, that practice supports a personal map of Sharjah rather than a detached topographical record.
- The photograph shows red dunes passing abruptly into a fortified hillside and then a broad plain beneath dark clouds. A strong vertical division interrupts the left side, while the low horizon and elongated 160 by 60 cm format hold these contrasting zones together.
- The documented acrylic-on-canvas medium permits sharply differentiated passages, from opaque earthen buildings to layered blues and pale rain. In the image, repeated contours and tonal transitions soften otherwise conspicuous shifts between locations.
- The artist identifies Najd Al Maqsar, Khor Kalba and Mleiha as the work’s subjects. Encountered together, they frame regional identity as an accumulation of distinct ecological and built environments, filtered through longing and belonging.
About the Artist
Nasha Maryam
Nasha Maryam is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Sharjah, AE.
Nationality: Indian
My signature art styles are seascapes and desertscape paintings. It is because I find in the desert the moments to pause, slow down and introspect.
