"Mary's Prayer - Danny Wilson" Painting

Mediya Al Matroshy is an Emirati contemporary artist born in London and she paints music. As a person with synesthesia, a condition characterised by the blending of multiple senses, Mediya hears the sound of colors and sees the notes of music. In her abstract works, music is not merely a muse, rather Mediya evokes rhythms & notes on the canvas, making her connection to music a deeply central & spiritual part of her work. The melody of the songs that Mediya listens to is translated into colors, shapes, and textures, and the energy that music evokes becomes brushstrokes on the canvas. “It is that connection that I seek with something much bigger than me which I’m striving to connect to primarily,” she writes, adding that, “the song is the mediator & the painting becomes the intuitive expression of that which I see and feel. Each art piece is a song, and that is how they are titled,” Mediya explains.