FEATURE ARTIST:

ZAKEE SHARIFF

Elegant drawings, prints, and paintings remain her signature

London-based artist and designer Zakee Shariff set up her studio in 1993, making art and working freelance with a variety of fashion- and textiles-based clients. In 1996 she launched the Zakee Shariff ladies clothing collection, with a younger diffusion line called Maggie introduced in 2001, extremely popular, selling across the globe, and a cult following developed for Zakee's work with her love of collaborative projects, result has been a wide diversity of acclaimed new work within fine art and illustration, fashion and textiles, interior and product design, styling, publishing, and art direction. Zakee's elegant drawings, prints, and paintings remain her signature. Whether applied to fabric, paper, canvas, clothing, wallpaper, album cover artwork, or any other medium, any one of her creations are instantly identifiable as a Zakee Shariff piece. Zakee's spread a message of peace and love, to enter Zakee's world is a willingness to open up, let go, and enjoy the ride...