Une oeuvre de Abu Jafar
Abu Jafar creates large canvases that are riots of colour, yet conjure simple images and impressions rain dripping slowly down a windowpane or the colours of an optimistic summers day. Oil and acrylic on canvas. Some paintings, such as Under the Blue, took many years to complete. The painstaking process of layering colour on top of colour blue dripped, brushed and applied on to blue results in luminescence and sense of a moment halted. The very size of the canvas heightens the desire to walk into the image and lose oneself in the soft layers as if they were a memory.


“ Abu Jafar is a very energetic and gifted artist who has worked in a wide range of media, including installation/ performance as well as sculpture and painting.”
-Isobel Johnston, Curator, Arts Council Collection London UK -99