CAMDEN ART GALLERY, London, UK
Once the eye goes deeply into her colourful pictures, signs that do not belong to the literate appear. They are organic sensations, ideas of dreams, fantasies where her work occupies a clear habitat in the imagining; their treatment of colour and volume could result in the eye to pervert itself as abstract painting.
Suspense, magic, colour, shade, emptiness, evocation, the urban, the sacred, fantasy, nature, perfume, sensuality… these are all signs that can be recognized in her paintings.
Surfaces sublimated on surfaces that support the conceptual interpret her paintings.
Surface is a good way to get closer to Sahar’s painting; surfaces that indicate depths inside time and space, former steps of the pictorial process, coats on coats reflecting the long journey of the mind through the movement of the hand.
Her mark can be felt on the whole surface; the brushstrokes almost seem to come from the Expressionism, with a willingness that aims to show its internal rhythms.
Here words and concepts have no value, the images themselves are finalized to express through colour the internal vibration of the soul.
This is why Sahar’s works on a fine skin, opaque and transparent at the same time, is both surface and inside, growing from bottom to top, from the inside to the outside, and from her mind to ours.
Sahar’s painting talk to us from the inside with an internal murmur.
-- Rose Marie Bellemur
-- Art Critic
Art in Mind - The Bricklane Gallery, London, UK
Through the medium of drawing and painting, Sahar Aljajeh’s interest lies in capturing the essence of the objects surrounding her. Having originally worked with the medium of charcoal, she developed an understanding of how images are formed through light and shade and how colours are produced and interact with one another. For Sahar, oil painting “reflects the colour of life”.