Nadiya
Jinnah Bio

I am a four-Continent Asian of Indian heritage and was born
in Uganda, East Africa.  At the early age
of 17, I decided to travel to England to study Art.

 After a Graduate degree in painting from Cheltenham, and
master's degree in Sculpture from Royal College of Art, London, I was granted a
fellowship in sculpture from Gloucestershire College of Art, Cheltenham,
England.

As I dwelled deeper into self-expression through
abstraction, I was inspired by Kandinsky in the early years and later I was
fascinated by the free expression of the Modern movement going on in the USA.

 Having thoroughly enjoying both aspects of expressing
through painting as well as sculpture, I found a need to find a way to combine
both mediums for making Art.

Therefore, I created a unique process of carving my
paintings on a clay surface to give me a deep and complex dimensional texture
and then transferring this image to its final phase, into a flexible acrylic
surface ready for painting. 

 This private glance of being able to see the mirror image of
each piece in its clay form and then the finished image, is something I cherish
as a personal gift. It makes me aware of the duality in my own life of inner
and outer realities.

 I now live and create
in New York City.

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