Shazia
A Letter To My Younger Self | 2023
We are excited to share the news that Yorkshire-based artist Shazia returns to Castle Fine Art with her 2023 collection A Letter To My Younger Self. A collection of innocent portraits that capture the uniqueness of people Shazia has known throughout her life, each image encapsulates qualities that make them distinct but suggests that a deeper story lies beneath the surface of the canvas.
We are proud to be donating a percentage of each sale of limited edition artworks to our chosen charity, Birmingham Children's Hospital, to help fund the work they do to help over 90,000 sick children each year.
A Letter To My Younger Self | 2023
Shazia
The artist
Shazia
Shazia began her career in a greetings card company, then went freelance and started a family. She is now a full-time artist, famed for her perceptive paintings of children and young people. The bright and cheerful colours she uses in them are inspired by her travels in South America, where she took a trip after university with her now-husband Ian. 'We'd gone to Mexico and I was at Frida Kahlo's house where everything is really bright; there's nothing that's not colourful. I think I try to bring that into my work, with the children with red hair and bright, stripy t-shirts and things like that.'
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