Creative Process

Sixty seconds is not very long. It turns out it is also long enough to draw something, if you stop arguing with yourself about whether you can. KAUST in 60 Seconds grew out of that discovery.

The Islamic Golden Age gave us astronomers who named the stars and illuminators who covered manuscripts in geometric gold. The Anwā' Collection begins there. Fine art painted in gold watercolour on Stonehenge paper. One pattern. Infinite light.

Most people who want a commissioned piece of art never ask for one. Not because they don't want it. Because they're not sure how it works. I've been commissioned for forty years. Here's how it works with me.

Six paintings. Six women. And when you hold your phone up to any one of them, the work jumps off the canvas. The first augmented reality art collection in Saudi Arabia, built on the mathematical foundations of Islamic geometric art. Each piece a portrait. Each one alive.

A freshly laid band of yellow paint cutting across a grate in the street stopped me completely. No studio. No special equipment. Just a trained eye, a phone, and the decision to look at the ordinary differently. That moment became an Amazon Number 1 bestseller.