اهلا وسهلا - "ahlan wa-sahlan" - Welcome

An open door is a welcome that turns a stranger into a friend.

In this luminous, ornamental scene, a pavilion stands like a threshold between worlds. Its patterned surfaces shimmer with quiet invitation, framing a woman who appears in the doorway with an open, graceful gesture.

Behind her, trees and mountains suggest the wider world beyond - a reminder that hospitality is both a personal act and a bridge between realms. Welcome reflects the beauty of openness: the moment, when boundaries dissolve and connection begins to take shape.

Orca Spirit

Under a full moon, an orca leaps through icy waters beneath a sky of stars. Yet within its body lives another world - a jungle of trees and sunset light, a secret pond where life breathes and renews.

For the Haida and Tlingit peoples of the North Pacific, orcas are kin - intelligent, social, and deserving of the same respect we grant ourselves. 

This painting honours that vision: the ocean holding the forest, the whale carrying the world’s breath within. May we, too, learn to see the life of our planet as one shared body.

Inner Garden

A forest clearing becomes a mirror of the inner self. Through a quiet pavilion, a path unfolds - leading toward a garden prepared for an unseen guest. The air carries a hush of expectancy: cushions arranged, carpets laid, everything awaiting the presence of another.

Beneath a tree, a woman sits in stillness, part of the scene yet apart from it. She is both observer and inhabitant of her own inner world. Around her, nature becomes an extension of thought - each leaf a breath, each ray of light a gesture of welcome.

Inner Garden is not a private retreat but an open threshold. It invites the wanderer to enter, to rest, and to discover that the landscape of one soul can become the meeting place of many.

المحمية - Al-Mahmiya

Resting and giving shape to dreams.

Above a tranquil expanse of water, where clouds drift like unspoken thoughts, a golden frame floats - a threshold between the visible and the imagined. Within it, a woman reclines on a cushion, her body at rest, her mind adrift in creation.

المحمية - Al-Mahmiya, meaning The Protected, evokes the sacred space where dreams take form before entering the world. The figure hovers between sky and sea, both sheltered and radiant, embodying the quiet power of imagination as a source of renewal.

The painting is a meditation on stillness as strength, on the sanctuary that allows vision to grow. To dream, it suggests, is not to escape reality - but to give it shape.