I did not work on this (painting) for at least three years and then I decided to get back to this painting for no particular reason. My older daughter was born then and was a toddler when I started to finish the painting. The painting is symbolic like many of my paintings and uses certain indigenous metaphors peculiar to South Asia/North India and Pakistan. It also has a decorative element to it and takes inspiration from Indo-Persian Miniature Painting schools.

Fatima Zahra Hassan was born in Sahiwal, Punjab, (Pakistan) .She received degree for B.F.A. with major in Miniature Painting from National College of Arts, Lahore (1991). She further went on to do an M.A. in Painting at Royal College of Art, London, U.K. (1993); Post-Dilploma   in Traditional Arts ,Prince's School of Traditional Arts, London (1994) and Ph.D, University of Wales (1997).Her rigorous training in the Indian, Mughal and Persian traditional art forms have informed her works. Selected participatios include Taking Liberties, Merton Art Festival, London (2018, forthcoming); Revisiting Beauty, Threshold Gallery, New Delhi, India (2016) and The Overwhelming Imagination: The Junction of Interactivity, Art Konsult Gallery, New Delhi, India(2016) .

She currently lives and works in London, U.K.