Painting on a fabric batik, watercolour

50cm x 70cm

Price: USD 2,000

Watercolour on A3 paper

297mm x 420mm

Price: USD 700

Watercolour on A4 paper

210mm x 297mm

Price: USD 200

One of the author’s early works with watercolour, this painting is very dear to Sakina’s heart. It is the reflection of the fullness of life, soothing freshness and passion for cherishing warmth of radiant vibes of autumn. Delicious, juicy and flavourful harvest fruit, a pear, in Sakina’s interpretation, symbolises the peace of mind, harmony and comfort of everyday life, as it does a continuous growth and longevity.

While creating with watercolours, Sakina iterates, every movement counts. It requires high concentration, precision and accuracy as you draw. Painting with watercolour is a very tedious job that leaves no room for the slightest discrepancy.

Pencil on A3 paper

297mm x 420mm

Price: USD 680

Pencil on A3 paper

297mm x 420mm

Price: USD 850

Oil on canvas

50cm x 70cm

Price: USD 5,000

Certifikate

Roma, Italy

Painting on a fabric batik

Watercolour and acrylic

50cm x 70cm

Price: USD 4,000

The four seasons of a year is a central theme surrounding Sakina’s art view. Powered by gentle touch of the spring bloom, the artist illustrates an elegant woman as the allegory of spring – the time of hope and rejuvenation. In the background, bunches of grapes that simbolise harvest and prosperity are hanging on the vines over the woman’s head turned back, with her gaze fixed into the distance searching for answers to her many unanswered questions in the comfort of her garden.

Fine lace and flounces on her headscarf tenderly cover the airiness of her flowing hair without diminishing its radiant beauty, but only emphasising it. Her kind eyes tell the viewers that she is in anticipation of the beautiful and the charmingly new.

The garden itself is filled with the breathtaking scents and flavours of spring. Featured in a magnificent summer dress with openwork lace embroidery, the lady in the garden is dressed in a national outfit. The theme of Azerbaijan is key to Sakina’s artworks. She uses elements of buta as an ornament characteristic of the authentic Azerbaijani decorative art.

Painting on a fabric batik

Watercolour, acrylic

50cm x 70cm

Price: USD 4,200

The inspiration for this next painting in a series of artworks, where a central theme and the leading philosophy behind the imagery is the world of a woman, came from Sakina’s mother. Born and raised in Central Asia, Sakina has inherited from her mother the feminine strength and perseverance coupled with a keen sense of beauty rooted in her family. The woman in this artwork is featured wearing a traditional Uzbek outfit with a vast array of colour palettes and patterns of floral design on it. The image of the fabric evokes the artist’s childhood memories of her home in Uzbekistan and her mom busy with her chores as she moves around the house looking stunning in her floral dress.

Typically, an Uzbek woman’s clothing is made of bright fabric coloured in shades of red, green, blue, purple, orange and yellow – the colours of autumn chosen as the overarching theme of this illustration. Sakina’s main emphasis in this picture is on the woman’s hands, in line with the artist’s conviction that they convey a lot of hidden details about human personality that people oftentimes neglect to notice. With the fashionable cigarette holder hanging casually between her long and delicate fingers and with a stern impression in her eyes, the woman reveals serene confidence and noble grace while embodying the spirit of motherly fortitude and resistance. A strong woman of deeds and not words, she is the representation of a feminine power in the face of the world where we live in – the world that has a predominantly masculine profile. “As women, we are not as weak as many would think of women and certainly not weaker than men”, Sakina says as she iterates further, “We are equal, we take responsibilities, we make the world stronger and better”.

Watercolour on A3 paper

297mm x 420mm

Price: USD 400

Yet another piece of artwork from a series of early paintings with watercolours, the bunches of pear fruit continue the autumn orchard framework, which Sakina drew upon in her previous works. The theme of still life in this illustration conveys a sense of earthly abundance and eternal beauty.

Oil on canvas

50cm x 40cm

Price: USD 1,300

Oil on canvas

50cm x 70cm

Price: USD 1,700

Acrylic on canvas

50cm x 70cm

Price: USD 1,600

Acrylic on canvas

55cm x 75cm

Price: USD 2,100

Inspired by Alexander McQueen’s 2014 spring collection – the “Art of War”, Sakina Jafarli created her own series of battle-field female archetype. Woman of today, in Sakina’s suggestion, is blatantly confident, fearlessly daring, fighting her limits and fiercely marches forward. There, she knows, a better life awaits her. There – where the sun is shining, the future is inviting.

The famous Ferris Wheel, also called Baku Eye, in the background emphasizes the flow of life despite all the turbulences and chaos of our everyday life. An image of a woman-warrior amidst the city’s most crowded and dense areas is the connotation to her unmatched inner power that makes a strong woman of the contemporary Orient to run against obstacles, to run with dignity, to break off the chains… To run to win. To run to succeed in the outer world.

Acrylic on canvas

55cm x 75cm

Price: USD 2,100