Thuraya Baqsami

Kuwait, b.1951

A painter and engraver, Thuraya Baqsami’s early art training was at the College of Fine Arts in Cairo followed by a period in Moscow where she got an M.A. in graphic design and book illustration. She then went to Senegal and trained in silkscreen, batik, painting on silk and ceramics. In flowing lines she builds up her uncluttered, flat, rhythmic compositions that fluctuate between a male’s reality and a female’s fantasy.