Oumaima Choua is a self-taught artist born in the Netherlands. The artist comes from a Moroccan heritage and she was born on 1997. Her hyperrealistic portraits explore the psychology of her subjects by portraying them on large canvasses.
The artist has crafted her style over many years, experimenting with shapes, textures, tones, and different things using her preferred medium of graphite and charcoal. Oumaima uses her large-scale works to evoke the emotions, thoughts, and feelings of her subjects whilst capturing the essence of the human experience. “It’s important to challenge yourself in order to keep growing learning and improving” says Oumaima.
Her striking use of light tone to immortalize the figures in her work gives the artwork an ethereal quality. Often bare-skinned and in dramatic poses, each work tells a story of not only the creative process but also the artist’s connection with the figures she recreates.
Oumaima Choua describes that drawing has been a part of her whole life. As a curious and observant youngster, she loved to explore the colours and shapes found in her surroundings owing to which her imagination would run wild on the blank pages. “When I draw, I lose track of time. And that’s one of the many reasons why I’m in love with what I do” says Oumaima. Her works are a limitless space in which she expresses her freedom and creativity, giving people stories and worlds where they can project their own experiences.
As she continues to perfect her style, Oumaima has already debuted her work at the International Art Fair 2021 in the Van Gogh Gallery, Austria, and Select Art 2022 with WOC in Chania, Greece. Still based in the Netherlands, when the artist is not drawing, she enjoys keeping fit, reading books, and creating content for her fans on social media.