This artwork symbolize the desire of beauty and the harsh realities of life

This figurative painting is an outstanding work by artist Shazia Salman. Shazia have always been inspired by the concept of beauty, time and the pain behind smiling faces. Striving for a better tomorrow, for perfection and happiness is a universal desire and it reflects in all of our actions, that is what she has been tried to portray through her paintings. You will see a lot of flowers and leaves in her works, they symbolize the desire for beauty, the chess represents the harsh realities of life. The women in her paintings carry emotions from all the stages of game on their faces. Everything is astonishing here if you look close enough, this is a round world, without corners, a perfect geometry, we’re walking in circles around it, our minds; tiny worlds of our own, all painful, all mysteriously beautiful and perfect.