Fidan Aliyeva Rasim
My name is Fidan, and I’m an artist from Baku, Azerbaijan - a city that has shaped a big part of who I am.
I’ve been drawing for as long as I can remember. Ever since I was a child and first learned how to hold a pencil, I was already creating. My mother noticed this early and gently encouraged me to keep going. She is an artist herself, so maybe that’s where it all began - watching her draw, being surrounded by creativity at home, and naturally finding my own way into it.
My father has always supported me too, and I’m deeply grateful to both of them for that constant belief in me.
I started participating in art exhibitions when I was around 10 years old, drawing everything I could see around me. Back then, it was about observation - the world in front of me, captured as honestly as I could.
As I grew older, especially through my teenage years and into early adulthood, my art changed with me. It became less about what I see and more about what I feel. Emotions became louder, deeper, sometimes overwhelming - and painting became the way I process them, understand them, and let them go.
Starting a new piece is never easy. Facing a blank canvas often feels like a challenge in itself. But once I begin, something shifts - I get fully absorbed, and it becomes difficult to stop. I work until the piece feels complete, even if I’m still not fully satisfied with it in the end.
What defines my work is simple: it comes from the heart, not from overthinking. I don’t try to force meaning into it - it appears through emotion and honesty.
I studied at the Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts, where my relationship with art became both more structured and more intentional. It was a place where I was able to step outside of instinct alone and start understanding the foundations behind what I had been doing naturally since childhood.
During my studies, I explored different techniques, materials, and ways of thinking about composition and form. At the same time, I never lost my personal approach: the emotional, intuitive side of creating that has always been at the center of my work!
Being surrounded by other artists, ideas, and perspectives pushed me to question my own work more deeply and refine my visual language. I learned how to slow down, observe more carefully, and push my ideas further than I thought I could.
Looking back, this time was not just education in a formal sense, but an important stage in shaping who I am as an artist today.
Through my art, I try to show both beauty and truth; the beauty of this world, and the beauty within all emotions, whether soft or difficult. Everything we feel has its own place.
Over the years, I’ve filled countless sketchbooks and created many works that now feel like fragments of my life’s journey. After more than 15 years of drawing and painting, I still feel like I’m just continuing what I started as a child... only now, with deeper emotion behind every stroke.
