Karim Ahmed Khan, a visual artist with an honours degree in Fine Arts from the National College of Arts, Lahore (2015), has had a decade long practice garnering him recognition and accolades both nationally and internationally. His work has been shown in galleries both home and abroad, and was commissioned by the Lahore Biennale Foundation for LB03 (2024).

Recently, he has been pondering upon the consequences of global warming, particularly the destruction of forests and natural habitats, such as those of the Hunza Valley, where he lives and works. Using charcoal as a primary medium, along with miniature painting techniques like gouache on Wasli and paper, Karim’s bare branches with the occasional flowers and leaves, evoke ideas of transformation and regeneration in Nature.

With and yet, Green Karim exhorts us to contemplate a return to a more harmonious co-existence with the natural world.