Abu Dhabi · Photography
Golden hour at the Grand Mosque
White marble holds the last light longer than any canvas I know. Notes on photographing the city that raised my palette.
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Artist · Writer · Abu Dhabi
where ink learns to feel
I break the mold, adjusting to your creativity. Whether it is a canvas drinking burgundy and gold, or a sentence learning to breathe, the work is the same: to speak to people's emotions and adjoin the reader, the viewer, with its sentiments.
Maryam
Selected works, artyam.gallery
The Atelier
Maryam Alexander moves between the easel and the page. In the atelier she builds surfaces of burgundy ink and gold leaf; at the desk she writes copy, stories and scripts that turn readers into believers.
Artyam Gallery is her home for the visual work: a growing collection of paintings, exhibitions and editions. The pen, meanwhile, never stops: website copy, blogs, social stories, whitepapers, screenplays.
The Writer's Desk
We do not limit ourselves to literature, journalistic or technical forms. The writing speaks to people's emotions: complex information turned into copy anyone can feel.
Pages that answer, persuade and convert.
Research-driven stories with a human pulse.
Short-form words engineered for attention.
Objects given a voice worth listening to.
Depth, clarity and authority in long form.
Explainer and video scripts that stay remembered.
The Atelier Instruments
A small cabinet of instruments from Maryam's studio, open to everyone. Play, mix, sketch, steal a palette. Everything runs right here in your browser.
Drop in any image, or choose one of Maryam's works, and the atelier will distil its essential palette. Click a swatch to copy its hex.
Paint with mouse or touch. Slow strokes run thin, fast strokes run wide.
Choose a single seed color; the wheel returns its families: complementary, analogous, triadic and split. Click any swatch to copy.
Writer's block is just a door waiting for the right knock. Draw a prompt from Maryam's cabinet, for painters and writers alike.
Press the seal below to receive your first prompt.
"The writing which we do is something different. We speak to people's emotions."
Maryam Alexander
From the Journal
White marble holds the last light longer than any canvas I know. Notes on photographing the city that raised my palette.
Color is a contract of trust between seller and buyer. That thin line called trust starts long before the first word is read.
The Dutch masters knew: darkness is not the absence of color. On peonies, patience, and painting what refuses to sit still.
Every painting is an archway. On thresholds, desert light, and why the viewer must always be invited to walk through.
Collage as cartography: mapping a coastline with handmade paper, gold leaf and a little bit of weather.