Mussarat Mirza was born in Sukkur, Sindh, and completed her MA in Fine Arts from the University of the Punjab, Lahore. She taught fine arts at the University of Sindh, Jamshoro, for over a decade. Her early work was characterised by semi-Cubist forms painted in impasto oils, with the Sindhi landscape as her main theme. Her work in the 1970s and 1980s continued to portray the Sindhi environment in personalized manner with lyrical colours, worked onto the canvas with a palette knife. Mirza has held eight solo exhibitions across Pakistan, and her work is included in national and provincial collections. Her paintings have been featured in exhibitions in Europe, China,...