1) Who are you, and what do you do?
Hello! I'm Dayah Salim. I love to create an artworks inspired by nature surroundings, what I've felt (emotional or physical), basically just life's experiences.
2) Why do you do what you do?
Painting and creating artworks is like a healing process, truly therapeutic. To express what I've felt through a paint brush on to the canvas.
3) What is your strongest memory of your childhood?
Being Independent. It has made me to what I am today. To be a stronger person with all that I have being through in my life, either emotionally or physically. With all that, it gave me inspirations to create expressive artworks with a deeper meaning.
4) How has that memory inspired or influenced the way you create?
Through what I have felt throughout my life, what I have seen, all the pain and happiness that I have endured has given me strong inspirations to express my emotions though painting.
5. What is your dream? And a dream project you have always wanted to work on?
My dream is to become a full time working artist, to contribute to the art scene here. And of course the hopes of getting more support for the arts in this country. With that said, i would love to be able to exhibit internationally.Being interested in realistic painting, specifiacally portraits n human figure, my dream project wld be to create artworks that depicts other cultures. The different traditional cultural costumes fascinates me.
6. Do your other interests influence your art?
Nature, specifically water. Water has always been an interest and inspiration to paint. One can come up with all sorts of compositional ideas related to water.