Biography
Alaan Shama (Shama_Art) is British artist, guitarist, poet, life coach practitioner and historical pragmatist. Born in Ealing on 8th October, he studied in North West London, where he gained certificates in Art & Design and in Enterprise, Business & Entrepreneurship.
At 16, he won an art competition with a sculpture of a powerful lion, a piece symbolising strength and courage. It was an early sign of the passion and purpose that still drive his work.
Alaan is fully immersed in watercolour, acrylic and oil, choosing each medium for the effect and message a piece calls for. His work aims to captivate individualistic souls. Beyond the canvas, he creates music, including beats, hip hop, rock and R&B, to express sound and emotion as part of his artistry. He draws on mythology, literature, psychology, philosophy, spirituality and religion, themes that help him build connection through his art.
An entrepreneur from his late teens, he created the clothing brand Undisputed King / P.B.I.S. (Power Beyond Itself), which serves the combat sports community, from UFC to boxing. He has also completed short courses in business management, marketing, psychology, TV & film and graphic design.
Alongside his art, Alaan works as an employment specialist and job coach, mentoring and guiding young people toward personal and professional growth. He is also a public speaker and a voice for young people, a light of hope for those striving to achieve greatness and live fulfilling lives.
He has exhibited three of his artworks at the Brick Lane Gallery in London. His work has also been selected for display with a Contemporary Art Market & Art Investment organisation on their website and for inclusion in the published Investment Artist 2026 book. He carries a vintage sketchbook everywhere, capturing ideas and observations that feed his next project.
Philosophy
There is no defining what Creativity is about making something that feels authentic to you and spreads through your soul once it reaches other places filled with an edge and character and harmony. There are many ways our inner being can step out from it's comfort into creating something we may perceive to be strange but unique. It is from Alaan Shama's research and understanding that creating objectives or a character comes from a place of having the desire to express ourselves gracefully.
The tonality of Art composure is: fondness, sensitive and sentiment. This represents powerful emotions that transfer from one's emotion vibration to another human being.
To understand one's true self and what art piece is used to tell a story set in another universe is explored in images that all started from our mind that absorbs details used into crafting work some may consider to be a masterpiece.
To express creating an Art piece encourages one diving deep into the their soul of escaping current modern world into another world filling with joy, appreciation, brush strokes, exhilarating and enchanting. This increases the heart and soul of finding out what expression of foundation we individualistic souls want to project onto the world.
This piece is a cover Alaan Shama created to shaw case a single touch between paint brush and paint it self begins the process to create the images running through the mind on graphical design websites.
The Journey towards unleashing creativity and human soul...
Inspect, search or purchase Alaan Shama's official Artwork categories across different galleries and portfolio of sketches, paintings and digital art. Intuitively created from unconventional art mixed media, aesthetic universal human language, artistic materials and the touch of feeling other emotions.
''Medieval Knight''
''Scandinavian Viking''
The imagination of a knight who's duty thought-out his lineage was to serve, protect and eliminate dark forces during the dark ages (10,000 BC England). This was an inspiration that came from previous paintings that symbolize honour, courage and boldness to create and add value to the lives we touch on this earth.
Norse Mythology is the element of living a courageous life with means to take the leap further away towards a new world - The sword, shield, axe, physical strength are the embody to feel, the suffering, pain and loss and transform into a different part of the human brain towards what lays ahead. This inspiration came from sculpture in an art gallery that showcased how a Viking is portrayed in the eyes of another soul.
Alaan Shama at the Brick Lane Gallery.
Alaan Shama's three portrait pieces of Artwork were presented at the contemporary painting and works on paper exhibition from the 26th Augest to 8th September.
His paintings and graphic markers often include bold expression with symbolic imagery, exploring themes of freedom,identity and the connection between Humans and animals. His work for the exhibition explores Dark Noir Gothic vampire warrior, The horse of Nature's awakening and an elegant gentleman who seeks to shape the working society into something impactful.
''Vampire of the dead''
''Elegance of a Gentleman''
