Faqra Rashid Mir from Qammarwari Srinagar is an engineer and have done B.tech from National Institute of technology, Srinagar in civil engineering and am currently pursuing M.tech in Geotechnical engineering from Delhi Technological University and is a painting, calligraphy artist.
She said I work mainly with acrylics on canvas, oil colors , portraits with charcoal and have recently started merging calligraphy, mandala and acrylics on canvas. I also use micron pens and prepare detailed drawings of historical buildings, beautiful mosques and conceptual paintings.
Faqra says – “I have been painting since I can remember. As a child I just loved colors, I used to finish my papers early so I would doodle at the back of my question papers in the remaining time.”
