Sharzad Hime

Sharzad Hime
London-born Visual Artist | Emotional Intuition | Symbolic Storytelling | Rock ‘n’ Roll Soul

Sharzad Hime paints like memory sings—raw, intuitive, and full of contradiction. Born and raised in London, her practice is rooted in emotional automatism: a process where subconscious feeling leads the brush, and the canvas becomes a vessel for what cannot be said aloud. Her work is not planned—it arrives. Each piece is a quiet eruption of longing, resilience, and symbolic truth. Her visual language is rich with recurring motifs: flowers as emotional vessels, veiled faces that conceal and reveal, drifting balloons that symbolize familial distance, and protective talismans like the Evil Eye. A young woman or girl appears often—her face always hidden, obscured by petals, shadows, or abstraction. She is everywhere and nowhere. The question lingers across Hime’s body of work, unanswered but deeply felt. Hime’s mixed-media approach—blending oil, acrylic, watercolor, and embedded text from newspaper clippings or old letters—creates layered surfaces that mirror the emotional complexity beneath them. Her brushwork is gestural and instinctive, shifting from thick impasto to translucent washes. Her palette is emotionally coded:

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