We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Diyar Al Asadi . We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Diyar below.
Hi Diyar, thanks for joining us today. Are you happy as a creative professional? Do you sometimes wonder what it would be like to work for someone else?
as a full time artist, i get to explore and create an endless search of what to paint on my Canvas. i had a regular jobs to survive before, I worked long shifts with little to no time to relax.I didn’t like working for someone with no creative free time. I felt The free spirited artist inside me was dying, which forced me to change my career immediately. In 2015 i decided to pursue art full time. I struggled to make it through, I always wonder about the starving artist jounrey, you’re ‘not necessarily starving’ but I was hungry to more creative knowledge. i did my best to make art like a job, set goals to reach and timeline to follow, but in each painting or artwork I had multiply challenges. i struggled with losing my time and self in endless searches and studying my current or next project, I work more than 14hrs a day with no days off sometimes. I Usually struggle with a deadline. Sometimes i wonder if anyone told my collectors what would they say.
i go back to the question, if I’m happy as an artist! yes I’m indeed and very much satisfied. each Painting takes me to different schools of art, philosophy , math and learning of my tradition and new cultures. its makes me happy when people talk about my art and how its reaches their hearts and they want to collect it.
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
I do paintings – acrylic on canvas. I’m trained in classical Islamic art and calligraphy, which I use as inspiration and a means to push boundaries within my artwork to explore beauty, balance, gender, religion, culture, and spirituality. When I work using traditional Islamic art techniques, I prefer acrylic on canvas or gouache on cardboard. I spend months working on the details of the painting, and it’s easier for me to use water-based paint because it dries faster. I also see water-based colors and a cloth of canvas as they are basic and easy to find and use, as i practiceed how to prepare a Canvas from my own shirts when i was a refugee, as I painted growing up when my family struggled a lot financially.i have made more than 100 painting in my art journey, all my art is sold and collected globally, and I’m very proud that my latest Paintings been reaching an important audience that I always wished to have
For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?
I mostly proud of the stage of experience i reached with art so far, i love when people walk by the art and they stop when they see my art to take a moment out of this world to gaze into my paintings and colors, i can see their mind dances with the color of the Canvas like a Sufi whirling dance. Lately, I been so excited for the recognition and the opportunity on having my Painting in the right places, I just made a painting for the Iraqi prime minister’s and his honor called me that was amazing an amazing journey to take.
Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?
as a painter,I research a lot before starting a project, something I learned from my mentor. After all my years of learning that a painting takes time and an effort, I cant rush it if I want it to become a finished artwork . when I was a young artist in Jordan dreaming of producing the perfect painting, I went to 2nd school for Art after high school to spend the rest of my day practicing the techniques to find my style as I try to find my way to the masterpiece painting. i met so many amazing teachers that they show me their ways into styles, art is life to live for me, its more than a Painting or a story to tell but its a way to grow and feel a live with
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- Website: https://phxart.org/blog/diyar-al-asadi/
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Diyar Al Asadi