Lorna Beryl Selim was an English artist and art teacher, who married prominent Iraqi sculptor Jewad Selim, relocating to Baghdad with him in 1950.
15 Facts About Lorna Selim
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Lorna Selim was a practising artist for much of her life up until her death.
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Lorna Selim was a capable and influential artist in her own right.
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Lorna Selim is consistently listed as an Iraqi artist from the pioneer generation.
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In September 1950 Lorna Selim left Sheffield to join Jewad in Baghdad, Iraq and they were married a week later.
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Lorna Selim was fascinated by the traditional Iraqi housing found along the banks of the Tigris - the bayt and the mudhif.
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Lorna Selim began by sketching a building then she would return home to start the layout of the painting.
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Lorna Selim was very active in Iraq's arts community through her participation in important arts groups.
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Lorna Selim became a member of the Society of Iraqi Plastic Artists and the influential The Baghdad Modern Art Group which had been founded by her husband, Jewad Selim and Shakir Hassan Al Said.
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Lorna Selim exhibited her work in the exhibitions of The Baghdad Modern Art Group.
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Lorna Selim participated in the Iraqi Pavilion Design for the International Fair held in Damascus in 1954.
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Lorna Selim was a teacher at the Girls' College in 1961 and taught drawing at Baghdad University's Department of Architecture, headed by Mohamed Makiya, in the 1960s.
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Lorna Selim continued to paint from her Welsh hillside home in her later life, surrounded by close family.
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Lorna Selim's work is held in permanent collections including the Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha and elsewhere.
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Selim is the subject of a non-fiction book by Iraqi journalist, Inaam Kachachi entitled Lorna, Her Years with Jawad Selim published in Arabic by Dar el-Jadid of Beirut in 1998.