The Inner Queen by Takwa Sabry
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Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 50 x 60 cm
Year: 2026
Price: $950.00 USD
Status: available
Writing A playful and expressive portrait exploring identity, strength, and the beauty of being yourself. Through vibrant colours, spontaneous brushstrokes, and layered textures, the crowned figure comes to life, balancing confidence with vulnerability. A celebration of individuality, emotions, and embracing all the colours that make us who we are.
Why collect this work?
A sharply outlined crown and face hold together a field of drips, patches, and interrupted marks, making self-possession appear constructed rather than simply declared.
- Sabry describes her wider practice as mapping shifting emotional states. Here, that intention is focused through a single crowned figure whose direct gaze gives inner complexity a public face.
- In the photograph, enlarged eyes, circular cheeks, and an asymmetrical mouth sit within heavy dark contours. The frontal pose reads as assured, while mismatched features and marks crossing the body prevent the portrait from becoming a fixed emblem of confidence.
- The documented acrylic on canvas permits opaque outlines, translucent-looking overlaps, and fluid drips. These contrasting applications separate the figure from the active ground while also allowing colour and marks to pass across that boundary.
- Encountered as a contemporary self-image, the painting complicates the crown as a sign of authority: its improvised geometry connects sovereignty with play, performance, and the effort of assembling an identity.
About the Artist
Takwa Sabry
Takwa Sabry is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: Painting. Based in Dubai, AE.
Takwa Sabry is a visual artist whose practice inhabits the space between emotion, memory, and identity, weaving painting, mixed media & symbolism.
