Butterfly & Frog (Red) Painting

CURRICULUM VITAE Shaukat Khan 21 Carriage Mews, Canterbury CT2 8AL, UK. www.khanart.co.uk info@khanart.co.uk khan_canterbury@hotmail.com Four Lilies Nasturtium Red Tulip Yellow Tulips The Beach Dill Adelphi Jasmine Fish in the net Yellow Lilies Based in Canterbury, South East LOOKING CLOSER! I have developed a unique and innovative style of painting flowers. It's been influenced by my lifelong relationship with botany, a biochemist with the Wellcome foundation and love of the work of Georgia O'Keefe. Interested in flowers since my childhood, I have spent thirty years in cultivating, investigating and painting flowers. Most artist paint flowers purely for their beauty but I paint the parts other artists either tend to ignore or simply do not see! It is the inner parts of the flower such as the petals, stigma & stamen, and complex pattern arouse my interest. I paint inner complex design or structures that are obscured by the outward visual beauty. Most people see the flower but do not really observe the true beauty, as their structures are stunning and exciting and wonderful to behold. ABSTRACT & ECSTASY OF COLOUR IN ART My abstract work is related to the environment. It may be countryside, shape of the land, trees formation, cliff and any object of interest lying around on the beach. Take colour hints from the nature, plants, flowers, trees earth, water, son and fire. FUNKY & BUZZ ART This is an modern and contemporary art that I have developed with the notion that brain buzz and sparkle at the time of a formation of an idea and when brain sparkle and give messages of dots and line than idea develop into a vision of a shape hence a painting. Influences Van Gogh, Monet, Matisse, Picasso, Dali, Georgia, O Keefe. Career Path: I am exhibiting for a charity. Seed for Africa and UNICEF This cause has brought a great deal of interest to my work. I have had exhibitions in Ashford library gallery, University of Kent. I have exhibited at National college of Arts Lahore, Pakistan. Abbeville. France. Malaga. Spain. University Of Kent. Thanet contemporary Art Festival. Margate. Ashford Library Gallery. Kent. Commission painting for NHS Trust Hospital, Tyne-side. Paintings for commercial greeting cards and posters. 2004 organized environmental art workshop at Lahore Botanical garden with the help of 200 students from the National College of Arts.