Sana has studied at the Vienna Academy of Visionary Art learning directly from leading Visionary Artists including Ernst Fuchs, Alex Grey, Amanda Sage and Daniel Mirante, and the Scarborough School of Arts under Kane Cunningham, Andy Black, Wendy Tate and Steve Whitehead.
Sanafari - Traditional Painter
His passion for the archetypal and mythological exhibits itself within his works, at the forefront within paintings of fantastical scenes and characters or exploratory self portraits reverential to the canon of Western allegory. Informed by life study and observational drawings, he straddles the line between realism and painterly expression, ensuring above all that each work is instilled with the correct emotive force and a composition which engages the viewer and leaves them excited to examine it further.
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In an increasingly digitised world, Sana yearns to highlight the beauty of the art of oil painting, through his adoption and nurturing of traditional painting methodologies developed in Europe over the last millennia. A bridge can thus be made between that which is often relegated to the past, or unnecessarily held aloft by institutions of modernity and branded unattainable to the modern consumer, and the rich depths of contemporary story making.
Sana works out of his home studio in the seaside town of Scarborough, North Yorkshire, accompanied by Odysseus the dapple dachshund. Having benefited greatly from small hands-on workshops and one-to-one tuition from contemporary painters, it is his hope to further the tradition of practical teaching by offering guidance in this comfortable space.
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Art, in the form of paintings, drawings, books, films and video games, has long served as a means of escapism and expression to those people unable to integrate fully into a society of expectations and social norms. In the creation of his home studio, Sanafari has begun to embrace his differences and the difficulties that arise due to them.
His belief is that through art and expression one can overcome the hurdles and stigmas attached to autism, introversion and neurodivergence.
Those features of an artist's personality which make integration and socialising more difficult can be turned into strengths within the production of artworks and the exploration of the psyche through visual means, the visionary artist has long been called the 'avant-garde' as it it they who stride further than the zeitgeist, push every boundary and explore every avenue in order to expand and enrich society, while also facing oncoming threats and discovering new pitfalls in its path.
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