Ebtisam Al-Saffar is a Qatari artist based in Doha. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the College of Art Education at Qatar University, obtained in 1995, and is a member of the Qatar Fine Arts Society. Al-Saffar is interested in depicting features that most effectively illustrate emotional and psychological states of humans, such as changes, desires, aspirations, and memories, which form the human experience, focusing on face and eyes. Her paintings reflect a sense of empathy and spirit through a distinctive technique that employs vibrant colors. She believes that the asymmetry of the human body on one hand, and its definition and flexibility on the other, are fundamentally linked to water.
Al-Saffar has presented a series of paintings of human face as a means of understanding everything about a person, such as love, emotion, sadness, and their entire life story. She is now interested in painting nature with a focus on water as the most vital element that has nourished humans since the beginning of creation.
