Painting What Cannot Be Seen

For Somaya, painting is a way of making the invisible visible. Her work moves through memory, emotion, nature, dreams, and the inner life, using saturated color and expressive forms rather than strict realism.

Women, water, gardens, doors, landscapes, and imagined spaces recur throughout her paintings. Each can become a symbol for something deeper: freedom, transformation, memory, longing, or an inner journey.

As Somaya says, “I believe that what lies within us can become visible through color, form, and imagination.”