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Courtesy of the artist
With Inaam Zafar
Ages 16+
In English
Transform raw earth materials into artist pigments, and find harmony with nature. Work with naturally sourced substances such as earthenware clay, minerals and natural blacks to develop pigments rooted in place and material exploration. Through guided demonstrations, learn key processes, including grinding and levigation, to help you refine raw materials into usable colour.
Once you have created your pigments, combine them with different binders to produce a range of paints, including oil, watercolour and egg tempera. Consider how the material properties of the pigments shape the behaviour and appearance of each medium. At the end of the workshop, you will have new paints and a deeper understanding of how colour can be derived directly from the environment.
Sharjah Art Foundation is committed to making its programmes inclusive and accessible. You can arrange for any support needed through the registration form.
For more information, email learning@sharjahart.org, or call (06) 544 4113.
About the instructor
Inaam Zafar is a visual artist and a painter whose practice coheres around a poetics of time, memory and material residue. He builds a sustained inquiry into how elements and images decay, endure and reconstitute themselves across personal and collective histories. Select solo exhibitions include The dust, too, is replete, Grey Noise, Dubai (2024); Without, Sanat Initiative, Karachi (2017); and so long as it’s grey, Rohtas II Gallery, Lahore (2015). He is represented by Grey Noise, Dubai. From 13 June to 20 September 2026, Zafar's work is being shown in the Sharjah Art Foundation exhibition Body Quotidian.
Registration for this session has closed.
Image:
Courtesy of the artist