Autobiography of shalimar sharbatlys
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Abstract painter Shalimar Sharbatly is a woman who definitely defies expectations.
Shalimar Sharbatly
Saudi Arabian abstract painter (born 1971)
Shalimar Hassan Abbas Sharbatly (born in 1971) is a Saudi Arabian abstract painter. She was the first woman to be commissioned by the government to do street artwork.
Her hand-painted, abstract designed Porsche 911 was featured at the Louvre.[1]
Biography
Sharbatly grew up in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the daughter of Saudi businessman Hassan Abbas Sharbatly.[2] She started painting at the age of three.[3] Her first art exhibit was in 1988 in Cairo when she was 16.
Several celebrities attended including Egyptian painter Salah Taher and poet Farouk Juwaidah.[3]
Sharbatly attended the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo, Egypt.[4] Later, she earned her bachelor's degree in psychology at King Abdulaziz University and her master's degree in criminology at the Beirut Arab University in Lebanon.[5]
In 2011, Sharbatly married Egyptian film director and comedian, Khaled