In 2016, a pivotal visit to the Philippines transformed Bahjat’s approach to color and composition. The heavy shadows and restrained palette that had previously dominated her work gave way to luminous backgrounds alive with light. Nature, water, and organic elements began to flow into her portraits, becoming both narrative and symbolic, reflecting renewal, serenity, and the simplicity of existence. By surrendering to her subconscious impulses, Bahjat creates richly detailed compositions where still-life elements and figurative motifs interact, producing a sense of quiet poetry and contemplative space.

Born in Damascus, Syria, in 1991, Bahjat now lives and works in the United Arab Emirates. She graduated with honors from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Damascus, where she confronted a lifelong challenge with perspective. Rather than allowing it to constrain her, she transformed this challenge into a defining feature of her artistic language. The resulting style blends painterly expressionism with a still-life sensibility, producing dreamlike spaces where forms gently blur and figures seem to dissolve into their surroundings, creating a delicate tension between subject and environment.

The female figure that threads through her work embodies both vulnerability and quiet strength, acting as a guide through the emotional terrain of each painting. Through subtle textures, layered colors, and careful interplay of light and shadow, Bahjat invites viewers to move beyond the surface and engage with the psychological and poetic dimensions of her compositions. Her work reveals the intricate rhythms of memory, identity, and introspection, offering a meditative space where imagination and reality coexist.

Bahjat’s paintings have reached audiences far beyond her studio, finding homes in both private and public collections across the Middle East, Asia, and Europe. They resonate across cultures, linking diverse histories and personal memories through a shared language of feeling and imagination. Each work becomes a quiet conversation, a bridge connecting viewers to the universal currents of human experience, where identity, memory, and dream converge.

In the stillness of her studio, surrounded by pigments and brushes, Noor Bahjat continues to explore the delicate balance between presence and absence, the visible and the unseen. Her artistic journey remains an evolving meditation on life, memory, and longing, where every image is both a personal revelation and an invitation to see the hidden layers of the human soul.

‘Folded Horizon’ 2025, Acrylic on Canvas, 90 X 90 cm  

'Vertigo Skyline'2025, Acrylic on Canvas, 90x90cm  

                      'Circleated' 2023, Acrylic on Canvas, 180x180cm

'Displacement' 2024, Acrylic on Canvas, 80x80 cm

'Drown City' 2021, Acrylic on Canvas, 110x264 cm