About the Artist "Shanti al-Ilham"

 

Aischa Panning (artistname "Shanti al Ilham") was born in 1980 near Berlin (Germany) and lives currently in Milano (Italy). Already in her childhood her artistic talent was discovered and promoted. After her business studies she learned the occupation of nurse and continued practicing it in hope to qualify herself for a charitable job in the development aid.

9 years ago she embraced the islamic religion. It was not easy to arrange her artistic talent with the islamic rules. So she started to paint only islamic paintings and sold them at Online-auctions and in arabic restaurants. With her paintings she tries to show the people the beauty of Islam.

 

 

The artist especially paints pictures with mosques. Some of the paintings are depictions of real mosques and others are based on fantasy. Time after time she also started including motives of plants or modern art in her paintings. She garnishs such paintings for example with qur'ânic writings to give them also an islamic use. Cause in this way she (by the will of Allâh) might give her customers the possibility to bring blessings into their homes by decorating their walls with such pictures. On the other hand she hopes to help others with her paintings to remember Allâh.

 

The artist exclusively uses acrylic paints. That means that she uses special artist-acryl-colors. She is very careful by choosing only materials which are Helal (lawful) in the islamic religion. For example it's forbidden to write down the name of Allâh or Qur'ân with impurities. So, she is using for her paintings only brushes from synthetic, goat- or oxhair, instead of using brushes from pig's bristle or other animals which are forbidden to eat in Islam.