Tazim Jaffer

With shimmering colors, fluid brush strokes, and rhythmic movement, Tazim Jaffer captures the mood of her international experiences in her skillfully rendered and culturally rich paintings. Every oil on canvas recalls a detail, often an indecipherable or imprecise moment, encountered by the artist on her journeys around the world, studying as a cultural anthropologist. Her sophisticated color palette, filled with highly concentrated, radiant tones, washes over the canvas with a jewel like translucence and transforms her works from ethnographic documents to shining examples of figurative fine art. Working in the style of classical realism, Tazim Jaffer uses a traditional Academic approach to represent scenes often depicted through the eye of the folk artist.

Born in Tanzania, Tazim Jaffer has traveled, studied, and lived abroad during her life as an artist and anthropologist. Continually inspired by the beauty and diversity of humanity, Jaffer lives and works in Ohio, Canada and India.