Anna Schofeld Studio

Anna Schamsi Schofeld-Bahrami
I am a feminist abstractionist – artist, mother, and woman living with chronic illness. In my practice, I navigate the tensions that shape me: strength and exhaustion, control and surrender, chaos and clarity. For me, abstraction is not an intellectual exercise but an act of liberation – a space where I can breathe, feel, and reassemble myself.​ Motherhood teaches me daily how identity stretches, breaks, and reforms.
Living with chronic illness confronts me with limits – yet also reveals a profound power in renegotiating them. These polarities find their way into my work: in vibrant color fields, gestural movements, and layered compositions that hold both vulnerability and resistance.​
My art is feminist because it portrays femininity as power – not cliché. Pink is my form of resistance: a color long dismissed, to which I restore its agency. It stands for visibility, courage, and self-determination. In my paintings, abstraction becomes a feminist act – dismantling male-dominated traditions through emotion, intuition, and intensity.​
For me, it is a gift to perceive the world through a female lens – soft, emotional, and deeply intuitive. I see strength in softness, power in sensitivity. In a world still shaped by analytical, masculine ideals, this emotional perspective becomes an act of quiet rebellion – a reminder that true strength often lies in empathy, openness, and emotional depth.​
My works speak of empowerment, of identity in flux, of finding beauty within chaos. They reveal that power does not lie in perfection, but in the courage to continuously transform.​​​