There appears to be a developing story of the female trooper from one painting to the other, depicting past present and the future. The series of Khan’s exquisite works are interwoven with a theme of insistent struggle of women folk amidst the modern-day challenges. Bohemian in conduct, Razia Sultan, the fifth Sultan of Mamluk ancestry, opposed all customs related to a woman’s appearance by dressing in masculine attire and refusing to wear a veil. Razia was known for responding only to the masculine title ‘Sultan’ and refused to be called ‘Sultana’ because it meant ‘wife or mistress of a sultan’. Khan has always admired the glorious reign of Delhi Sultanate by Razia Sultan, the sultanate’s only female ruler. Though she denies being a feminist – she has vowed to empower the woman to rise against discrimination, denunciation and abuse.

Portrayal of Muslim warriors, horseback riders, swords and war paraphernalia manifest her inner desire to emulate historical female combatants who led wars in the subcontinent.

Having braved through difficult obstacles with initiative and resilience, she could easily be denoted as a conscientious warrior searching for truth and identity. Watching her artwork, one can actually observe the reversal of her poignant experiences transformed through joyful compositions. Her personal encounters with life’s extreme tribulations gave her a remarkable forbearance which she redirected into her creative activities. Since a decade, Khan has found a niche in the mystical domain of painted expression. It is Khan’s signatory expression that molds the subjects into tangible forms depicting diverse epistles of gratitude for the bounties that nature bestows on mankind. Universal in meaning, the current set of works hold a variety of connotations for the viewers, however, her mystic theme remains consistent. Once spiritually absorbed, the inferred ideas begin to take form on the canvas unleashing colorful interpretations backed by the artist’s exclusive palette. Executed mostly on spot, she has certainly managed to empathize with what she observed and persistently deciphered nature’s hidden forms within peculiar montages of trees, rocks, earth, clouds and water.ĭriven with passion, the artist continues to deploy mystic observation of her ambient world to infer hidden embedded forms, encrypted signals and silent communication. Revealing Nature’s Secrets / Deciphering Nature / Decoding the Metaphysical / Obscure Realities / Visible yet Obscure / The Emancipated WomanĪdamant to reveal the secrets obscured within nature’s bosom, Fauzia Khan, a die-hard expressionist, continues her legacy by bringing forth a whole new repertoire of remarkable landscape and fantasy paintings.

Razia sultan painting