Collection: Baqer Al-Shaikh

Born In: Baghdad, Iraq

Lives In: Gällivare, Sweden

Background: A figurative painter and portraitist with highly textured paintings.

Style: Notable throughout his work, Baqer is keen on using past light and dark brushstrokes to create the feeling of mystique and somber.

Themes: Exhibiting or blurring the fine lines between the corporal and metaphysical states of darkness. 

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