About Diyara
Diyara is a Kurdish painter based in London. Working primarily in oil on canvas, her practice is colour-led and intuitively figurative — landscapes and figures held together as forms of testimony and memory.
Diyara is a Kurdish painter based in London. She creates intuitive, colour-driven oil paintings on canvas, drawing on figures, mountains, and shifting landscapes. Shaped by Kurdish memory, struggle and a life marked by displacement, her work explores belonging, survival, and the quiet ways identity is carried. Painting as honest storytelling, she makes work that feels raw, intimate, and open, inviting the viewer into a shared emotional space.
Through her practice, Diyara seeks to foster empathy and understanding, revealing the human threads that connect us beneath history, distance, and difference.