By NABAT PIRANI
Born in Uganda, the Pearl of Africa, I was always surrounded by luscious greenery, red earth and bright blue skies. Immigrating to Canada, the landscapes were also breathtaking with the ocean, snow-capped mountains and green pastures.
It was not until my retirement years that I began to paint, with inspiration from my memories of Africa and my beautiful home in Canada. I enjoy painting scenery, landscapes and abstract art using watercolours, acrylic and oil mediums. I live in Vancouver, Canada, with my husband Amin (Aguli) and have 3 grown kids and 5 grandchildren.
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Paintings by Nabat Pirani
Please click on images for enlargements
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Date posted: October 23, 2022.
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Compendium of Ismaili Artists
By MALIK MERCHANT
Publiser/Editor, Simerg
Some 8 years ago, we produced a beautiful PDF publication entitled “A Compendium of Ismaili Artists from Around the World” that can be downloaded HERE. It contained a short profile and one work of art for each of the 33 different Ismaili artists from around the world who wanted to be featured in the compendium. As much as we wanted to publish an expanded edition of the compendium featuring many more Ismaili artists, we are sorry to note that the response was disappointing despite a major announcement on this platform as well as pertinent social media pages. We are keen to publish an expanded edition of the compendium provided we can, at the least, double up on the original number of 33 artists that were featured in the first edition. There are hundreds of Ismaili artists around the world, judging from their participation during the Golden and Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Mawlana Hazar Imam held in 2007-08 and 2017-18 respectively. We therefore urge Ismaili artists to review the entries in the first edition, and send their details for the compendium accordingly to Malik Merchant at mmerchant@simerg.com. Please do not ask us to prepare your profiles by submitting your elaborate CV or resume or asking us to visit your website to prepare the profile. We need the information from you, based on the format in the compendium; each artist will be allotted one page in the compendium that will include a brief profile and one image. Please read the compendium!
Simerg - Insights from Around the World 
So so beautiful. Nani you are so incredibly talented, and I love you so much.
Wow Nabat aunty … beautiful paintings! Love them all. So exciting for you to have them up and recognized! So much hidden talent we did not know about:-).
Congratulations
I am so proud of my mom and so happy that she discovered her love for painting again! Congratulations! You are close to us everyday and in every room of our home with the beautiful work you have created.
Perhaps, one day, insallah, we can have the exhibition of All those paintings from around the world at the Agakhan Musuem—project worthy of further studies…………….
Dear Nabat Aunty: These are absolutely amazing! Works of art to be treasured.
Nabat so proud of you and your beautiful paintings. I have seen some when visiting you and they are absolutely gorgeous.
Love you Dilshad (Baby)
Beautiful paintings Nabat Aunty!! I had no idea you were an artist. Now why was your work not in the exhibition at the Round house tonight? I briefly met Amin uncle.
Dear Malik,
Suggestion for an Ismaili Painting Group of Global Jamat. We have excellent painters here in Pakistan too.
Thank you Baig for writing:
Please ask the Ismaili painters to share a small selection of their works (maximum 8 images per painter) by submitting the JPEG images along with their profiles to mmerchant@simerg.com. See Nabat Pirani’s post for an example of what they should be submitting.
Malik
Congratulations Nabat for these beautiful paintings with best wishes to you and Amin.
Absolutely stunning and beautiful. Thank you for sharing the beautiful paintings by Nabat Pirani.
Beautiful paintings. ENJOY your hobby!
Oh my God!!! Nabat you are so talented!!! Mashallah!!! Absolutely loved your paintings!!! Hidden talents in great women!!
Enjoying and loving your paintings as I sit in the
Solarium on my Panama Canal cruise. Keep it up.
Way to go Nabat (Bai). Love all the paintings. The colours are brilliant. Keep up the good work!
Beautiful paintings by Nabat Pirani.
Beautiful paintings – what exquisite artistry covering a variety of subjects and mediums ! Some evocative of the Group of Seven …
Where can I buy one?
Hi Mahmoud, thank you for appreciating my paintings. Are you truly interested in buying one? If so, which one? Thanks again, Nabat