Noor Salaita

Noor Salaita was born in Escondido, California and has spent all her life up to now in the area. She works in acrylic paint, graphite, and straight out the camera photography. Her love of art resurfaced in her first year of community college thanks to the support of a professor who had an impact on her. His influence was great enough it grew her desire to work professionally in the arts. Anatomy has always been an interest, so after one figure drawing class she chose to stick with a focus on figurative drawings and paintings as well as hands in her works. Finding different and unique ways to crop figures in her art has become her focus in portraits. The complexity of hands and the variety of ways this can be illustrated in graphite and acrylic drew her to continue illustrating them in her works. Her photography focuses upon finding creative ways to play with lighting and surroundings in portraiture without the use of any post processing.