Fa Razavi - March 2026
Fa Razavi is a painter whose work explores colour, perception, and the emotional register of landscape.
Working intuitively, her practice often centres on close observation where shifts in light, atmosphere, and mood are translated into subtle changes in palette and form. She stayed at House of Hulda in March 2026 as part of a collaboration with Rise Art.
Razavi’s work is rooted in looking, returning to the same visual field and allowing colour to emerge through sustained attention. Her paintings often move between control and play, where small variations carry the weight of the work.
Arriving at House of Hulda, the residency marked a clear break from her everyday pace. “I had been chasing deadlines, chained to the news… somewhere inside it, my own thoughts had fallen quiet.” She set a simple condition for her stay: no emails, no news, no communication - just time!
At first, the isolation felt unfamiliar. “Ten days alone, in the middle of nowhere, felt confronting.” But as the days passed, her attention began to shift outward. The landscape demanded a different kind of looking - constant change in light, colour, and weather that resisted fixed interpretation.
“After a few days, I realised I had begun to see differently.”
This shift became central to her process. She spent long periods mixing colour, trying to match what she was observing..not as a direct translation, but as a way of understanding it. Snow held blues and yellows rather than grey; the light carried tones that changed by the minute. Each day brought a new palette.
“Every afternoon, there was a moment when everything turned blue… as if the colour had risen from the sea and settled over the land.”
Rather than working toward finished pieces, the residency became a space for experimentation and recalibration. She describes spending hours adjusting colour with almost no visible change, where process itself became the work.
“Something in me began to loosen.”
Since her stay at House of Hulda, Razavi continues to develop her painting practice, carrying forward a renewed attention to colour, perception, and a more instinctive way of working.
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