From Our Land, With Love.
Ten paintings, each rooted in a particular place — its people, its traditions and, within the surface, its sand.
The Olive Remembers
Three generations are brought together through family celebration, embroidery and the rhythms of shared life. Olive terraces and sunlit architecture frame a portrait of belonging, with cultural memory carried from one generation to the next.
The Nile Sings
An older musician gathers with children and family beside the Nile. Music becomes a language of connection: something heard, learned and passed on. Water, palms and layered architecture place this intimate exchange within a landscape of enduring cultural memory.
Spring Enters the Garden
Family gathers in a Persian garden as spring returns. Turquoise surfaces, flowering plants and water create a setting shaped by renewal and the traditions of Nowruz. Across generations, gestures are repeated and memories take on new life.
Maqam by the Tigris
In a Baghdadi courtyard, music and poetry connect an older performer with younger listeners. The Tigris, palms and warm architecture surround a gathering in which listening becomes a way of learning, and cultural knowledge is shared through presence.
The Riad Sings
A riad becomes a house of music. Several generations gather around poetry, tea and conversation, surrounded by patterned tiles, carved wood and flowering plants. For Malak, Morocco holds a personal resonance: a place where hospitality and cultural inheritance meet.
Bread at Dawn
Cultural inheritance begins with an everyday ritual: bread made together in the early morning. Family, hospitality and remembered recipes bring generations into conversation. Malak finds belonging in the small acts repeated around a shared table.
The House of Generations
A grandfather sits among his grandchildren, a composed presence at the centre of family life. Coffee, dates and familiar objects evoke the gestures of welcome through which knowledge and generosity move between generations.
When the Roses Wake
The collection’s Saudi Arabian narrative considers family, landscape and knowledge learned through participation. Its story turns towards the rose harvest of Taif and the relationship between cultivation, craft and the traditions of hospitality.
Pearls of Song
Music carries Bahrain’s relationship with the sea into the present. A gathering of performers and family connects maritime memory with the pleasure of shared rhythm. The work looks towards the voices, gestures and relationships that sustain a community.
Stories in the Majlis
The series closes with conversation. Within a majlis, an elder shares stories with younger listeners as coffee passes between people. The gathering becomes an image of cultural continuity: someone remembers, and someone else is there to listen.