Artist Statement: My paintings represent how people strive to become perfect. Nothing is perfect, as seen in my lines. We mold and shape as the occasions change; and that’s what people will see throughout my work.The abstract styles really stir up my imagination, and I think about the infinite possibilities of what could be expressed on the canvas.

For me, it's about shapes, colors, and lines relating to each other. While the lines translate my own personal experiences, color says a lot about my mood while painting.  I'm intrigued by the power of color and give a great deal of thought to what I use in a painting. I always start a painting with red even if it will become green or blue later.

I have a sensation that my hand is guided by colors. My emotions are expressed by transposing the energy inside of me onto the canvas. Scratches and splashes of paint remind us that life always gives us unexpected surprises, but most importantly, emotions with reality. The shapes are coming...they take my identity...while I am breathing through my fingers." 



Hiba’s passionate expression of feelings, thoughts and outlook on life began at a young age.  She often painted images from her active imagination on scraps of cardboard and newspaper. Born along the Tigris River in Baghdad Iraq, her family soon thereafter relocated to Kuwait in response to Saddam’s rise to power.  The years in her new home proved to be the most impactful on her vision, and seeing the Gulf War through the eyes of the teenager served as a launching pad for future paintings.

Many of her current paintings were first sketched while she sat beside her family and neighbors in a basement in Kuwait during Desert Storms bombing campaign. She vividly recalls her only mental refuge from the earth rattling bombing, and the skies being painted with various bullet colors was her sketch pad and her pencil. What she lacked in paint she made up for in vision and memory of deep feelings of  love for those she knew, fear of the unknown, the yearn to escape to a more colorful border-less reality.