Contemporary Gulf artist working primarily in oil painting, mixed media, and plein-air painting. Her practice explores memory, identity, women, and Gulf heritage through a contemporary impressionistic language. She draws inspiration from everyday life, landscapes, cultural symbols, and inherited objects, using observation, expressive brushwork and material experimentation.
About the Artist
Samah Mahdi Abdulla
Heritage, Memory & Identity & Material
Cultural symbols and inherited objects become starting points for contemporary visual narratives. Oil paint is expanded through texture, gold leaf and mixed media when the concept calls for it.
Landscape & Plein-Air
Direct observation, changing light and place inform a more immediate painterly language.
Portraiture & the Human Presence
Expression, gesture and psychological presence are recurring points of exploration.
Artistic Practice
Exhibitions
2026 Love & Loyalty Exhibition
Abdulrahman Kanoo Cultural Centre – Art Gallery
2026 Colors from the Homeland
Bahrain Graduates Club
2026 Al Maysaf Exhibition
Bahrain Arts Society
2026 Insan Exhibition
Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA)
2026 Painting of Gold
Alayan New Media centre