Two Socotri Girls In Red Dresses

Oil on canvas, 45x25 cm, 2013

Where Your Feet Touch The Wave

Socotra wind. Pastel, 30x42 cm, 2012

Wind. Soqotri Girl

Oil on panel, 30x20 cm, 2011

Socotri Girl

Sepia and pastel on paper, 29x21 cm, 2010
Photo courtesy: Nikolay Antonov

Yemeni Boy

Sepia on paper, 27x21 cm, 2010
Photo courtesy: Nikolay Antonov

Old doors of Sana'a

There are many handcrafted ancient-looking doors in Sana'a, Yemen. To me, they look absolutely fantastic adding a surreal out-of-time feeling to the city, and I pray they would not be substituted by brand new modern doors.

Interestingly, most of these doors are made in India.

There is a river for us all

Highland landscape of Socotra, Yemen.
If you look closer, you can see a sleeping dragon there by the river.

Oil on paper, 18x24 cm, 2009

I suddenly looked back and saw this light

This is again one of those moments where time stood still, like it often does in Yemen. I loved the dreamy feeling about this picture so put it into oils.

Streets of old Sana'a

In the streets of old Sana'a time stood still.

Old door in Sana'a

Oil on canvas, 25x35 cm
Photo courtesy N. Antonov

Dar Al-Hajr, Wadi Dahr, Yemen

I was going to paint this scene for a long time, but it happened only when I bought a box of tempera paints. Maybe it's a scent of ancient times that prompted me to use tempera for this drawing. Anyway, I kept the sepia tones of this photo.

Photo courtesy: N. Antonov