Painter · Sketch Artist · Visual Storyteller

Mahira Bint e Hayat

Where pigment meets memory. Press and hold any artwork to peel back the grain and meet the painting beneath.

About the Artist

Mahira Bint e Hayat

Mahira is a self-taught painter and sketch artist whose practice wanders between oil pastel landscapes, graphite still life, and acrylic studies of earthen objects. Her work is quiet, unhurried, and deeply attentive to light — to the way a sunrise spills over a lake, the weight of a clay pot resting on a wooden table, the soft architecture of a single rose.

She paints from observation and from memory, treating each piece as a small act of preservation. Behind every finished work, there is a slower, grainier draft — the texture of the page, the pressure of the hand. This site is an invitation to look past the grain.

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Get in Touch

Let’s make
something honest.

For commissions, exhibitions, prints, or a quiet conversation about colour — I read every message.

mahirahayat185@gmail.com