At Pullman Maldives, there is a shared belief that art is an adventure that everyone shares, electrifying the atmosphere and reframing our world. With this ideology, they have introduced the first art week in the Maldives which was held from 14th-20th March 2022 with 3 Maldivian contemporary artists.
The week-long, art event was opened to all in-house guests unleashing potential, sparking creativity and inspiring minds through art and nature.
Meet the artists:
Shimanie Shareef
A multi-disciplinary artist and Art Teacher based in the Maldives, who is practicing mainly traditional and digital forms of Art and illustrations; Shimanie is also trained in Adaptive Arts (as an art teacher for people with disabilities and neurodiversity).
Her goal is to make Art more accessible and inclusive to people who have been neglected in this community a voice and a platform for expression to share this passion.
Shimanie’s art is heavily influenced by Maldivian folklores, history, colour, and nature. Colour and pattern are also integral to her art where she enjoys using a bright but considered palette for most of her illustrations.
Some of the activities that Shimanie carried out during the art week are art therapy for adults & kids, seascapes painting and botanical painting.
Rooba
Rooba has been drawing since she was a little girl and being a creator felt like it was on her soul.
Her style has evolved into different styles and she has been learning and discovering herself in the creative journey. Rooba´s approach to inventing styles is systemically. At first, she finds inspiration from other artists and then implements their style merged with her own. She practices one style for some time and refines it until she finds another art style to practice and refines again.
In the process, she likes to learn new techniques at different art courses, and combining different variations is how she likes to experiment. This can mean different mediums like acrylic paint, pencil, ink, digital painting to different themes like fantasy, dark art, artistic nudes, landscapes and more.
Her passion and talents took her to London, where some of her paintings were displayed at the London Bomber Gallery along with other international artists.
Rooba conducted some sessions on abstract painting, landscape painting and intuitive painting (kids only).
Lujain
From an early age, Lujain has had interests in different forms of art and creative works. Recently, he came across Mixed Media Arts, which fascinated him, and his journey started in 2019. As a nail artist, his projects contain thousands of screws, which are later painted by Oil color. His passion for this kind of art, dedication and patience are combined with one of the most iconic parts of the Maldives, the marine life.
One of his most iconic projects, The Survaival, has the aim to create awareness for the delicate beauty of our marine life and that we all are equally responsible to create a safe environment to protect them. Let’s all appreciate and protect these beautiful and gentle creatures. The project contains approximately 7000 screws that are hand-painted.
Lujain hosted live art demonstrations and showcased his artworks during the art week.
The Pullman Maldives Maamutaa art week was grandly concluded with a ‘One Night Masterpiece‘ by Shimanie and Rooba.
View the full range of activties planned for the art week here.