"Silence Is Not Absence" Painting

Quddus Mohammed
Artist · Writer · Poet · Lyricist
Quddus Mohammed is a multidisciplinary artist and writer whose creative journey is rooted in trans-formation—of material, memory, and meaning. His visual art reflects a contemporary spirit of experi-mentation, combining oil paint, specialty leather paints, hammered aluminum, leather, and carefully selected recycled materials to create works that move beyond conventional surfaces and techniques. By giving new life to what has been discarded, weathered, or overlooked, he allows texture, imperfection, and history to become part of the artwork itself.
His approach to art is defined by an instinct to move beyond conventional boundaries, bringing togeth-er original ideas, unusual materials, and imaginative concepts to create a visual language that is distinctly his own. For Quddus, the material is never merely a surface. It carries memory. It carries evidence of hav-ing lived, endured, and changed.
This philosophy finds its strongest expression in his collection The End Continues, which reflects his be-lief that endings are rarely final. Presence may fade, but memory continues. Life may end, but its influ-ence remains. A material may weather, break, or lose its original purpose, yet it can still become some-thing new. His artworks embrace this continuity, allowing aged surfaces, imperfections, and remnants of the past to remain visible rather than hidden.
Quddus's creative expression extends naturally beyond visual art into poetry, literature, and lyric writing. As an established poet, writer, and lyricist, he has long explored the inner landscape of human experi-ence. In 2026, he releases The Furnace of a Writer’s Mind, a collection of Urdu ghazals accompanied by English translations, exploring love, faith, longing, memory, and the slow alchemy through which thought becomes expression. His English poetry includes more than fifty poems published in In My Zone of Silence, In My Zone of Reflection, and Collected Works of Quddus Mohammed: Contempo-rary Poems. He is also the author of Home Cooking for Multicultural Cuisine, reflecting his belief that food, like art and literature, can become a universal language of connection, generosity, and care.
Across these different forms of expression, there remains a single thread connecting his work: a fascina-tion with what survives beneath the surface of things.