Marziyya S. Malik

Artist Statement

I paint the quiet places where land and memory meet — riverbeds, courtyards, the grey hour before monsoon rain. My work begins with texture: layers of oil and cold wax built up, scraped back, and built again until the surface holds a history of its own.

Trained in Lahore and now working from a small studio in Islamabad, I am interested in the ordinary architecture of Pakistan — a jharokha window, a washed terracotta floor — and in what remains of a place after the people leave the room.

Biography

Marziyya was born in Multan and studied Fine Art at the National College of Arts, Lahore. Her paintings are held in private collections across Pakistan, the Gulf, and the United Kingdom. She works primarily in oil and mixed media on linen, alongside an ongoing series of ink and gold-leaf calligraphic abstractions.

Studio visits in Islamabad are welcome by appointment.