Art at UOWD: 'The Colours of Sand'

The gallery will play host to art and cultural events by talented, up and coming artists based in the UAE. The inaugural exhibition was launched on October 13, 2006 with a series of paintings by Yalda Jafari. Titled "The Colours of Sand", the exhibition consists of 24 paintings of local scenes as well as paintings of fish and butterflies.

Mainly a self-taught artist, Yalda was born in Iran and moved to New York when she was seven, where she completed her primary and secondary education, with a Bachelor degree in Computer Graphics/ Animation, Fine Arts. She is currently completing a Master of International Business at UOWD. Her passion for colours and design is so strong that either on or off campus she never explored the real world without a sketchbook in hand.

In her speech at the opening night, Yalda said "Our daily life is filled with so many exotic colours, sometimes we see them and unfortunately, at other times we don't, and the way I see colours is so alluring that I must explore and share them in my paintings. Deep symbolic continuous lines, bright bold colours and the imaginative, creative shapes are all combined to provoke a creative and unique style of my own vision of what we call 'the real world'.

"The Colours of Sand" will be on exhibit from June 13 to June 24, 2006 at the Empty Quarter Gallery on the third floor of Block 15 (Knowledge Village) between 10am and 9pm, Saturdays to Thursdays. The Gallery is closed on Fridays.