Al-Zaidi loves colors and nature in all its seasons:
It is easy to distinguish between water-based dyes
Babylon – Kazem Bahiya
Artist Samar Al-Zaidi spoke about her constant love for the art of drawing, telling Al-Zaman: “For me, there is no life without art. It is the world I seek refuge in to escape from the noise of the earth and the chaos of life.” She added that when she holds her brush, she feels as if all this chaos is unfolding in her mind.
She confirms that her passion for drawing is not a coincidence, but rather an extension of her father. Al-Zaidi says, “I am deaf and mute. In fact, my passion for drawing began around the age of adolescence. I acquired this passion and love of experience through my father, the visual artist Zaid Al-Zaidi, as he was one of the first fans and supporters of my talent. I started drawing with watercolors in 2015, and I did not study in any art school or college.”
Al-Zaidi demonstrated her special passion for the style of high transparency and sometimes bold colors to represent the colors of nature in all its seasons and the method of mixing colors with a transparent and distinctive technique.
As for the secret of her passion for drawing watercolors over others, she said (Honestly, because watercolors for me are the easy and unavoidable despite its simplicity and transparency, but it was a great challenge for me when I started it. It was just curiosity inside me to experiment, but I did not know how much fun it really is in drawing watercolors. What distinguishes it from others is the pleasure during the drawing journey more than others, and I believe that every artist has his own story in this life and the challenges and difficulties he faces during his career).
Great effect
She explained that she was influenced by following and learning about the works of many pioneering artists, whether from Iraq or abroad, and one of the artists who had a great influence on her psyche and whom she considers her role model is her father, the artist Zaid Al-Zaidi, the artist Faiq Hassan, and others from the world. She very much admires the ideas and method of drawing of the artists (Joseph Zbukvic), (David Hockney), (John Singer Sargent) and many artists who had a great imprint in the world of art.
Regarding how she chooses her topics, Al-Zaidi indicated that sometimes she chooses them from reality through her visits to some natural places and taking pictures, and other times they are from imagination, and also because of her frequent viewing of nature photographers’ pictures, she has an artistic outlook that helps her draw ideas in her mind and implement them on her canvas.
As for her experience with ceramic art, she said that she had a beautiful experience learning ceramic art, as it added a lot to her and helped her a lot in improving her psyche and releasing negative energy, saying, “When I touch the clay with my hand, it gives me a strange feeling, and how can I finish it with dazzling pieces of art that impress everyone, but if I were to choose between it and drawing, I would definitely choose drawing because it is my first passion.”
As for her experiences and artistic works, she participated in several exhibitions in Baghdad, Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Lebanon, and Oman, and she participated in London, Germany, and Qatar. Pointing out her participation in ceramic work after graduating from his education course in Erbil, in addition to her working with her late father in an animation film and children’s magazine company when they lived in Syria in 2006.
Finally, she expressed her ambition to reach the level of her late father in drawing, and she hopes that her dream of reaching the international level will come true and that she will hold personal exhibitions in several countries.
