Welcome to our Art Shop!

We have witnessed our community grow and expand on all our platforms as we introduce more Qatar expatriates’ stories and lifestyles. As we come across different people within our community, we discover more and more unique smaller groups of communities such as mom influencers, food & travel bloggers, and many more. On-site gatherings and activities became extremely difficult to do during the pandemic. This has inspired us to engage with our communities online.

With exhibition spaces being closed down temporarily during the lockdown, we want to help our local artists living in Qatar to be able to continue showcasing and expressing their creativity in our art store!

With every purchase, you support the local artists to grow and reach a bigger level.

Watch this space to see the work of our diverse artist community.

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ARTIST OF THE MONTH

LYUBOV JALLADYAN

“I believe that there has never been a better time for art. Now is the perfect time to arm yourself with brushes, pencils, and canvases and get creative.”

Lyubov is a Tajik artist in residence for the past 15 years in Qatar, a member of the prominent art institutions in the country and abroad and an art educator.
“I share the knowledge with little talented artists saying they are most lucky have been living their wonderful moments of childhood in the peaceful country.

Every opportunity comes to their hands, including the choice of being an artist. With their parents, they visited several museums and vernissages. Have you seen many works of women artists of the past, do you know their names? Most likely not, because art as a profession has always belonged to men. Women painted pictures rather for the soul, their work was rarely glorified and almost never exhibited. Women did not receive a proper academic education, did not study the anatomy of the body, so if they painted pictures, then most often they were landscapes and still lifes.

Lyubov said that contemporary art has always been perceived ambiguously by society, and moreover, many artists, adherents of certain styles or trends, not only encountered misunderstanding, but also harassment from the authorities.

“Masters of naïve art, avant-gardists, suprematists were persecuted by the state back in the middle of the last century. Look back at what is happening in our time after half a century! In the “Year of Culture” of Russia-Qatar 2018, the museum of the former fire station exhibited the works of that very avant-garde and suprematists, and all the visitors admired their work!”

Lyubov witnessed the change in medium techniques used in the last century. Photography was widely distributed. It would seem that the professions of artists, portrait painters, and landscape painters should have disappeared. But no, their number has only increased. In addition, new techniques, experimental works, trends, graphics, street art, installations have appeared – everything that forms contemporary art. “I, like your parents, grew up on children’s books, which were illustrated by hand – with real pencils and paints. You are the generation of the 21st century, reading the same and new children’s books with digital illustrations. For such illustrations, a tablet is both brushes, paints, and a digital palette.