Suhail Noor

Painting has always fascinated me as I was a child. Colours attract me like a flowing bank of water, a tree, sparrows, butterflies, flowers, grass, rain drops and millions of things I can't mention here. When it came to painting, I always felt that this is something people can only do by learning in an institution or art school and every painting would take years to complete - that was my knowledge. So I spent 30 years of my life thinking like this, trying to draw with pencils and pens occasionally.
In 2015, the turning point: I met a woman and she became a good friend of mine. She is a disabled person, in a wheelchair. One day, she told me she wanted to be an artist and she had done learning and doing some works but when she lost the steadiness of her hands and lost the ability to paint, I showed her a little calligraphy work I did just with pens and markers. At that point, she said you could be a painter, start doing this! I said no, no I can't , she said you can, so I thought if I do this to make her happy, why not, but I knew I can't be a painter and can't do it successfully, but this would make her happy for sure.
She sent me a little exercise about how to draw roses, which was like a drawing learning for kids. This way,...

Exhibited in Las Vegas, Seattle, England, Ireland and Italy.