Janet Rady Fine Art

We are delighted to present Shooq AlShawi as one of the two artists featured in our current duo exhibition Where We Meet, now live online via Artsy and our website.🌸🌸🌸

AlShawi’s practice unfolds as a continuous dialogue between past and present, where legacy is not fixed, but lived as an ever-expanding ripple. Rooted in gestural abstraction and informed by both Baroque painting and Islamic art, her work translates inherited visual languages into compositions that feel at once ancient and immediate.

Guided by breath and movement, she builds her surfaces through layered applications of oil, oil stick, and pastel. Repetition and rhythm become a form of meditation, where linear gestures accumulate into fields of energy, depth, and vibration. Her paintings do not depict stillness, they embody it in flux.

Working often at a large scale, she navigates the tension between structure and spontaneity. Light and colour emerge as carriers of presence, while recurring still life and floral motifs appear at thresholds of transformation, moments where form dissolves into something more transient, more felt than seen.

Pictured above are:
At The Edge of Knowing 1-4, 2026
Oil and oil stick on linen
60 x 40 cm each