Rania Abulhasan is a Kuwaiti mixed media painter and illustrator. Her artwork is strongly influenced by her experience in fashion and product design: she emphasizes life and movement, using shapes and colors to express her ideas and communicate her message. Her soft delicate work brings a sense of calm and serenity to the viewer.
Professionally working in Art and Design since 1998, Rania finds that her passion for her work, and for sharing her love of beauty, continues to grow. Rania holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from The New School at Parsons School of Art and Design, Paris & New York. She majored in Fashion Design while minored in Product Design at Parsons. Her passion for art and design continued so she attended a fine arts program and gained a degree at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Throughout her studies, Rania worked with many influential artists and designers in New York, Paris and Milan.
Today, Rania paints in her studio and collaborates with various creatives and curators to showcase her work worldwide. Her work is mostly commission based. You can also acquire her work by order from her seasonal collections. She releases 2-3 series yearly. They are inspired by the rhythm and spaces that compromise her everyday, she translates her environment onto canvas or paper in a way that distills its essence, simplifying her surroundings before rebuilding them with new attention. Weather observing and interpreting a movement in a city, season, surrounding neighborhoods or people. Her work is rooted in a process of tactile discovery and imaginative exchange between place and paint.
At the core, Rania’s art is an inquiry into the spaces she inhibits. Her work is informed by her embodied experience; combining landscapes while exploring nature, navigating cityscapes and observing human behavior with their attire. The result is a contemporary body of work that articulates her world with vibrancy and fresh insight be it landscapes or her signature figures.
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