Jamie Zubairi

For those that were asking about whether I sell my Snow Scenes, while I'm building my website shop, the online art shop that I belong to, is selling 3 originals exclusively.

https://www.lakesideart.shop/product-page/jamie-zubairi-snowscene-ink-on-paper-3-variants

As a kid I growing up in Kuala Lumpur, I'd never seen snow but was low-key obsessed by it and wanted a snow globe (what I called "snow scenes" after I heard them being called that on Eight Is Enough).

In December 1984 I suffered a massive collapse while on holiday in England visiting my mum's family. Rushed to where they tested me for hours, trying to diagnose my left sided paralysis, throwing up, partial blindness, trying to narrow it down. I was barely conscious only aware I was being asked questions, convinced I was moving both arms, when only my right hand side was moving. I'd had a seizure while there but it passed. I was blind in one eye and could only see shadows and shapes from the other. And the massive, massive pain in my head.

A lumbar puncture later and they diagnosed correctly the massive bleed I had and had to be transferred to where they had the medical facilities. Another ambulance, mum holding my hand all the way, dad and brother in the car behind.

A few days later, a full diagnosis and a wait for the swelling to go down before I could be operated on. During the 5 hour operation, mum looked up and down the shops looking for a snow scene but nobody really knew what she meant. Desperate to find me one in the hope that it would make me better she tried everywhere. For the first time she went to a church to pray...

Back on the ward, I opened my eyes. A paper decoration on the wall, a clown with a green top and orange trousers made of concertina'd paper, pencil-coloured orange. A round smiling face made from a paper plate. I could see.

When I was well enough to walk down the hall unaided, the ward sister took me down to the front lobby, on watchful standby. It was January and Hull had a smattering of snow, enough to cover the ground. Cold and hard but melted wet and crunchy underfoot.
I have painted these snow scenes since 2012 where I remember car journeys through the snow seeing the South Lincolnshire landscape go by. They remind me of that time, thankful for my time now.

l never forget the NHS nurses and doctors and physio therapists that took care of me.

Totally awestruck by last night, taken thanks to Tina Chiang, with the unexpected surprise that the amazing Sharon Duncan Brewster with 1 rehearsal gave a blistering performance.

New life drawing session next week with Paul Bennett. 7-9pm from £7 for 2 hours at Lakeside Centre SE2 9AN

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/thamesmeadlifedrawing/1014134?

Buy tickets – Life Drawing Wednesday 11th Paul Bennett – Lakeside Centre Regular, drop-in,  life-drawing sessions held at Lakeside Studios in Thamesmead run by Jamie Zubairi and supported by Bow Arts....

I got to meet my MP today, she came to visit our exhibition that I curated, here seen in front of two of my works

So many artists joined us for the .rosenfeld session of for

It was beautiful to bear witness to this. As I make my own hejira back home I am filled with the memories of the many magic moments this journey conjured, the encounters, the experiences, the friends. I'm so grateful to those that opened their homes for me to stay, it wouldn't have been possinle otherwise. Thank you.

Got to have lunch with Steve and Lisa at the iconic . Photo by

Finished editing my showreel

Jamie Zubairi Showreel 2023 Jamie Zubairi Showreel 2023 Clips from TIDES (feature, directed by Tupaq Felber), STRANGE CITIES ARE FAMILIAR (short, dir: Saeed Taji Farouky) CUCUMBER (Channel…

You've gotta love this photo of taking a break during

Preparing for the section of the show on 1230am later

I have reached 600 followers! Thank you for your continued support. I could not have done it without each of you. Let me know what you'd like to see more of, whether it's the drawings, the poetry, the photography. Thank you so much! 🙏🤗🎉

New Online sessions from Thamesmead Life Drawing featuring life model Craig Donaldson. Hosted by me!

Monday 7pm-9pm (Zoom opens 6.30)

£7.50- £9.38 (including booking fee)

Life Drawing 20th Feb TMLD Online: Craig Donaldson 2 hours of guided online life drawing hosted by Thamesmead Life Drawing with model by Craig Donaldson

Quick sketch of a scene from York Theatre Royal featuring the skills of Greg Haiste and David Reed

I love this man's poetry

IT’S STILL POSSIBLE

It’s still possible to fully understand
you have always been the place
where the miracle has happened:
that you have been since your birth,
the bread given and the wine lifted,
the change witnessed and the change itself,
that you have secretly been, all along,
a goodness that can continue
to be a goodness to itself.

It’s still possible in the end
to realize why you are here
and why you have endured,
and why you might have suffered
so much, so that in the end,
you could witness love, miraculously
arriving from nowhere, crossing
bravely as it does, out of darkness,
from that great and spacious stillness
inside you, to the simple,
light-filled life of being said.
…

Excerpt From STILL POSSIBLE
in ‘Still Possible’
Many Rivers Press Jan 1st 2022

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Contemplating Castlerigg
Photo © David Whyte
The Lake District. Cumbria.
July 1st 2022

An imagined scene from the Kazumi backstory, his mother looking for her family, missing in the sea. is the new play by writer , directed by with and det Summerhall att tre

I'm calling this one "Looking for Taro" an imagined scene from

opens on Wednesday next week written by , directed by with and

Please watch this rather touching film if you can

Saeed Taji Farouky: "Strange Cities Are Familiar" The filmmaker behind "Tell Spring Not to Come This Year" and "A Thousand Fires" journeys with Mohammad Bakri to find home.

The amazing as Cob in our production of by Joseph Wilde for directed by . Photo credit