Mayhap Painting

Contemporary British artist Naila Hazell was born in 1981 and grew up in Baku, Azerbaijan. She was taught by renowned Soviet social realism painter Boyukagha Mirzezade while studying fine arts and getting her MA at the Azerbaijani Fine Arts Academy. Hazell has had numerous solo and group shows in Baku and now, with her studio based in West London, she is continuing her work and exhibiting in the UK. A figurative artist, working mainly in oil, she's also expanding her practices with different media for some of her future conceptual art projects. Hazell is preparing work for a solo exhibition within the next year. Hazell is passionate in her exploration of the stillness to be found in short precious moments, which can be seen instantly throughout one’s life, but which can also be ignored and lost in the haste of life. Her paintings transform those unconscious moments to create conscious reminiscences that can be activated by every viewer. The diversity of the deep colours and structures around her figures, can lead viewers to many dimensional connections. The extraordinariness to be found in her work is that her themes hold many stories, her unassuming ‘moments' are linked to ordinary human life experiences, but which can contain messages about deeper realities within life, and offer an acceptance of who we are.