"The Silent Watcher" Print

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 always planned, it simply ‘arrives’ from pure emotion. 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 symbolise familial distance, and protective talismans like the Evil Eye. A young woman or girl appears often in her art, 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, watercolour, 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: • Red: rupture, rebellion, and raw vulnerability. It pulses like a warning flare or a bleeding heart, unapologetic and urgent. • Blue: longing, introspection, and emotional depth. It washes across her compositions like memory itself; cool, expansive, and quietly aching. • Yellow: hope, illumination, and fragile joy. It flickers like a match in the dark; brief, bright, and sacred. Hime’s style echoes the thick, emotionally charged surfaces of Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff, whose obsessive layering and gestural intensity resonate with her own. She embeds meaning into material, using texture, text, and abstraction to evoke memory, grief, and survival. But Hime’s work carries a distinctly punk pulse, reflecting the energy of this vibrant, powerful artist, giving a strong rebellion, sincerity, and courage to hold silence. Hime’s art does not seek resolution. It holds space for contradiction, for silence, for the stories that bloom in absence. Her compositions are emotional landscapes—gestural, layered, and deeply personal—inviting viewers to witness what remains unspoken and to feel what cannot be held.