Umna Laraib

Umna Laraib is a Visual Artist, from Rohri, a small town in Sindh, Pakistan. 

Umna did her Bachelors in Arts with Distinction from National College of Arts, Lahore. She majored in Miniature Painting and also took Art Writing, Performance Art and Calligraphy as minor subjects. 

After her graduation, she has exhibited her works at O Art Space Lahore, Gallery 6 Islamabad, Khamsa Art, ArtSoch Contemporary Lahore, Ejaz Art Gallery Lahore, Gallery full circle Karachi, VM Art Gallery Karachi, Satrang gallery Islamabad, Alhamra Arts council Lahore and E- exhibitions and is consistently creating new works for upcoming Art exhibits.

Along with her Art practice, Umna has also curated some Art exhibitions in previous few years. She did an internship at Canvas Gallery Karachi and also assisted senior Artists and designers. She is currently living and working in Lahore, Pakistan.

My work is about colour exploration. Making the colour subject in itself, I am curious about how many tones I can create or can be created from one colour. Convinced that colour is not a lifeless thing, but a creature that moves swiftly and nicely from one form to the next, from one tone to the other. I create lines, squares or other forms, mostly taking inspiration from my surroundings nature, landscapes and more, that generates mixed emotions in my work and gives sense of structure to what I want to do with colour. Setting up these compositions as spaces and making colour structure of my work, my intention is to produce and fill colour tones in them. At first it’s just a huge one abstract part or block of colour but longer viewing reveals more than one tone. Each line or millimeter square has a tone no other has, and that is painting for me, both intuitive and controlled, non-objective and unintentional strokes and just creation— discoveries.