A Week After Twelve Years During the summer vacations last year, my best friend travelled to Ireland from the United States to see me. It was the first time we’d sat face to face in twelve years, twelve years of separate lives, separate countries, and separate versions of ourselves that the other had never met. […]
Introduction: Today, I was sitting at my art table, and there it was! My winning art piece at the Irish Country Women’s Association’s Art competition, resting on the shelf, almost smiles back at me. It instantly took me back to the moment when I had truly lived every part of it. That Moment of Delight […]
I’ve been painting for as long as I can remember, ever since I first learned how to hold a pencil. It was always there, a constant thread running through the different versions of my life. A kind of second language I never questioned. But it’s only recently that I’ve truly embraced it, not just as […]
Javeriya Z. Khan is a contemporary abstract artist and workshop facilitator based in County Laois, Ireland. Her practice moves between studio painting and community facilitation, exploring abstraction as a language of self-inquiry and renewal.
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