Sharzad Hime

Sharzad Hime is a London-born and raised visual artist, whose practice is rooted in emotional intuition and symbolic storytelling. Her work unfolds through a process of intuitive painting and automatism, allowing subconscious emotion to guide composition. She paints without premeditation—each canvas a quiet revelation of memory, longing, and resilience.

Hime’s visual language is rich with recurring motifs: flowers as vessels of unspoken emotion, veiled faces that conceal and reveal, drifting balloons that symbolize familial distance, and protective talismans like the Evil Eye. Her 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.

In "Elegy of a Lost Britain", Hime turns her gaze outward, weaving political and social commentary into a reimagined London skyline. Inspired by a photograph taken along the Thames Path, the piece incorporates newspaper clippings from 2024 to reflect the financial and ideological unrest in the UK. The London Eye looms as both icon and witness, while bold brushwork and saturated pigment evoke rupture, reflection, and national identity in flux.

Her more intimate work...