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​Salma Arastu

" My works are lyrical, spiritual, figurative, and calligraphic. As a visual artist, I am seeking connection through  humanity, soil, and soul. My journey in art begins with a line and that lyrical line takes me to unknown fields and
on a mysterious path and reveals new vistas to me. Work keeps flowing out and for me it is like a Sufi trance when
a whirling dervish dancing to the rhythm of soul’s music forgets himself and finds oneness with his God. In that
sense I can define myself as modern dervish. To achieve ecstasy through the act of painting and then helping
​people to achieve that level is my sole aim."  - Salma Arastu

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Art in Situ
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Salma presents her artwork on sturdy, professional grade canvases and frames each work of art with similar colors.
She also offers attractive limited edition semi-glossy metal prints, a total of 20 for each painting that offers prints.
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Salma Arastu Berkeley based Salma Arastu, a native of Rajasthan, India, has been creating and exhibiting her paintings internationally since graduating with a master’s degree in Fine Arts from MS University, Baroda, India. Her art form and techniques are greatly inter-woven with Arabic Calligraphy, Miniature Arts and Folk patterns, her major influences through her travels. As a visual artist she has exhibited nationally and internationally and have won several prestigious awards including the East Bay Community’s Fund for Artists in 2012 and 2014 and 2020. The City of Berkeley’s Individual Artist Grant Award in 2014, 2015, and 2016. She has public art pieces on display in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and San Diego, California and she has also written and published five books on my art and poetry including her recent with ecological consciousness from Quranic verses “Our Earth: Embracing All Communities.”