Hoor’s ability to be creative is infinite
Hoor’s artistic journey began at the erudite & nurturing NCA, Lahore, and from there, she embarked on creating her visual vocabulary to express and expand upon ideas, feelings, and events, both trivial and extremely serious. Hoor is a recipient of many accolades both internationally and nationally. In her 12 years of experience, she has become adept in numerous artistic techniques, including classical and Neo Indo-Persian Miniature painting, digital painting, videography, carpet making, framing, sculpting, Marquage painting, and illustration.
She has made an everlasting impact on her audience by creating art that is descriptive, visually appealing, full of life, and featuring singular, mesmerizing fauna. Like a writer, she gives a unique and individual personality to her art designs. From flowers to stars or birds to hearts, nothing is out of symmetry in Hoor’s vividly enchanting world.
I tell stories and create personal mythologies via painting/illustration, gilding, sculpture, and animation.
Her practice may visually take many shapes and forms, but the source, that is, traditional Indian and Persian Miniature painting, is always evident. Hoor presents the unusual and inexplicable harmony in visual media, characters, and symbolic themes between her print and digital art realm. In animated films, characters from old paintings reappear, but this time they are mobile and filled with gestures, and they sway with the rhythm of invigorating music. There is an intentional strive to invent new analogies with the act itself, as well as an inextricably linked system of storytelling.
Consequently, Hoor embodies the word personal mythology and not without evidence. Her life’ snap shot is demonstrated through the gleaming patterns and characters she has used in her various Indo- Persian miniature painting, looking at the visages presented throughout her works one becomes familiar with hoors persona, but yet their lies a bigger treasure common among her works, the need and appeal towards a unified form of artistic expression a “red stair case” manifested with help of her work and to her creating this symbol is the ultimate form of love and creation.
Written by Tehreem Fatima
Tehreem is pursuing a Bachelor’s in Clinical Psychology from the University of Management and Technology, and is the assistant editor of the School of Professional Psychology magazine. She has two cats and reads as many books as she can. Tehreem developed an interest in artistic practices from an early age. She also makes custom Eid, birthday, and Mother’s Day cards for her family.
Image: یو [Translation: Refers to the number 1 in Pashto, pronounced as yo. In this case, it marks the start of a series of such figures to be continued as 2,3 and so on], Hoor Imad Sherpao, sculpture, all copyrights are retained by the artist, 2025
