LANDSCAPE PAINTING: DUBAI & BEYOND

Nabil F. Safwat’s second exhibition at Total Arts presented his most recent canvases of the desert and sea of the United Arab Emirates. Landscape painting has long been a central interest in Safwat’s practice, with the UAE landscape serving as a source of inspiration throughout his 13 years living in Dubai. The dunes and sweeping plains, majestic skies, and elusive effects of light have become some of his most distinctive and compelling subjects.

In the artist’s words:

“During sunrise and sunset (but seldom during the glaring sun of high noon) an event takes place of indescribable beauty. Momentarily, it reveals its beauty and quickly passes irrevocably beyond the veil. Everyday, nature gives us a whisper, a hint, an insight of its wonders, offered to us to savour. But if that intimation is neglected, it will be forever lost. In nature…