Shaista is a self-taught painter. She believes that artist’s first inspiration is beauty, human faces and their expressions. All these aspects used to attract her which is why she decided to make portraits in my own style. Shaista always saw a great strength in women who tolerated the pain while still smiling. In her opinion, a woman is nature’s most beautiful and complete creation. In her paintings, the elements seen with the women are in a way related to or are a symbol of freedom of speech and the desire to be free such as a pigeon or a flute. While the jewelries are those chains which give a woman the deception of beauty, but, in reality, they are restricting them from being free in our society. The women that she draws reflect the pain of slavery that they have been bearing from centuries.
