British-Syrian artist Yasmin Hayat’s meaningful miniatures

LONDON: “The moment you start fighting the medium is the moment it will start fighting back and you’re not going to achieve the results you want.” This is the advice artist Yasmin Hayat gives her students as they try to master the art of miniature painting. 

“You have to have an extreme amount of patience,” Hayat tells Arab News. “I always tell my students, ‘You have to treat it as a meditation — don’t go in expecting to come out with a painting within a week.’”

Her own dedication to the art form can be seen in her beautifully intricate work “For the Love of Damascus” — a tribute to the magnificent Umayyad Mosque in the heart of the Syrian capital.

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