With most of her work being abstract, her creative process is very much based on intuition. “I want to make paintings that feel very true,” says Mohamedi. “I think I can do that if I don’t control the inception of the idea very much. I’m sort of like a semipermeable membrane; I just look at what’s around me, watch the thoughts that I have, listen to my children, listen to the air. I’m this filter for whatever’s happening around me.”

As for her inspiration, she finds it in the mundanities of everyday life. “I’m inspired by the things my children say, I’m inspired by my husband, my parents, my heritage, visiting other artist’s studios and seeing the way they do things, watching somebody hold a pencil in an unusual way and the way they press it onto a surface,” she explains. “That inspires me because I think, Why not? Why can’t I try that? Everything inspires me. I’m a sponge and a filter.”

Based in Los Angeles, she has exhibited widely in LA and is also a founding member of the Los Angeles art collective, The Binder of Women. Her work has been profiled in publications such as the LA Times and Huffington Post, but you can also follow her online, via Instagram.

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She says that she has been exploring the connection between the states of the emotional mind and translating that into her dramatic, abstract landscape paintings. “As humans, we are closely interconnected to nature, there is a sense of familiarity and comfort despite,” the artist shared on Bored Panda. “The landscapes are all links of my Austrian roots, a type of longing in my blood to reconnect and recreate the nostalgic imagery, and translating that in an emotive way, they are essentially landscapes of my emotional mind, embodied through suggestions of nature onto canvas.”

Niederhumer shares her art on her social media accounts, and on her personal website. Scroll down and check out her work below. We really enjoyed browsing through her Instagram account and we believe you will enjoy it, too.

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With most of her work being abstract, her creative process is very much based on intuition. “I want to make paintings that feel very true,” says Mohamedi. “I think I can do that if I don’t control the inception of the idea very much. I’m sort of like a semipermeable membrane; I just look at what’s around me, watch the thoughts that I have, listen to my children, listen to the air. I’m this filter for whatever’s happening around me.”

As for her inspiration, she finds it in the mundanities of everyday life. “I’m inspired by the things my children say, I’m inspired by my husband, my parents, my heritage, visiting other artist’s studios and seeing the way they do things, watching somebody hold a pencil in an unusual way and the way they press it onto a surface,” she explains. “That inspires me because I think, Why not? Why can’t I try that? Everything inspires me. I’m a sponge and a filter.”

Based in Los Angeles, she has exhibited widely in LA and is also a founding member of the Los Angeles art collective, The Binder of Women. Her work has been profiled in publications such as the LA Times and Huffington Post, but you can also follow her online, via Instagram.

The post Maysha Mohamedi’s Abstract Paintings Say It Like It Is appeared first on PlayJunkie.

She says that she has been exploring the connection between the states of the emotional mind and translating that into her dramatic, abstract landscape paintings. “As humans, we are closely interconnected to nature, there is a sense of familiarity and comfort despite,” the artist shared on Bored Panda. “The landscapes are all links of my Austrian roots, a type of longing in my blood to reconnect and recreate the nostalgic imagery, and translating that in an emotive way, they are essentially landscapes of my emotional mind, embodied through suggestions of nature onto canvas.”

Niederhumer shares her art on her social media accounts, and on her personal website. Scroll down and check out her work below. We really enjoyed browsing through her Instagram account and we believe you will enjoy it, too.

The post South African Artist Depicts Abstract Landscapes appeared first on PlayJunkie.