Artist Tamkeen Nadeem is a self-taught artist living in Islamabad.

She received her Masters degree in Mass Communication from Kinnaird University, Lahore. Tamkeen worked in advertising for 11 years, after which she launched her own social business CHARU, committed to empowering farmers by bringing rare and indigenous produce of Pakistan to global markets.

In her own words: “My paintings celebrate the diversity and the abundance of our planet…Having no formal training in the arts enables me to approach a blank canvas like a child; with an ability to trust the unknown, and go at it single-mindedly with purpose; delivering physical energy to a surface. Any surface. Color comes first, and the content develops later. My art is a reminder that we alone are the custodians of our planet and can live well and beyond, by becoming one with our environment”