The compelling paintings of Sudanese artist Hamid Ayoub, who teaches at the Ottawa School of Art and the Nepean Creative Art Centre, brings feelings to the forefront. Hamid strives to depict humanity and the beauty of the human spirit through colour and movement. A graduate of the College of Fine and Applied Arts, Sudan, University of Science and Technology, with a specialty in textile design, his goal is to contribute “to the global arts community immaterial of political, racial, religious or gender considerations.”