About Farah Saleh
Farah Saleh is a contemporary abstract artist based in London. Originally from Sydney, she has lived between Australia, the UK and Singapore, and travels extensively — a life spent between places that surfaces in her paintings' preoccupation with horizons, thresholds and departures.
A statistician by trade, Farah brings a pattern-maker's eye to the canvas. Where her professional life is spent finding structure in data, her painting works the same instinct in reverse: shapes, forms and structures loosened into atmosphere, colour and feeling. The result is work that is expressive but never accidental — dark abstract landscapes and colour compositions built with a quiet architectural logic.
Her current interests move between the Baroque, the Orientalist and the modern abstract: the drama of deep shadow and saturated colour, the pull of imagined landscapes, the discipline of form. Her first collection, La Cámara, responds to the stories of Angela Carter, beginning with Egress — a meditation on the freedom and foreboding of escape.
The work is heading somewhere: toward the feminine as a subject of power. Drawing on classical mythology and biblical heroines, her coming paintings will bring figures into these charged landscapes — women rendered not as ornament but as force. A moody mythological landscape of the River Styx under dark red clouds is currently underway.
Farah's paintings are available for purchase, commission and exhibition. She welcomes inquiries from collectors, galleries and curators — get in touch.
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