Safeya Binzagr was a pioneering Saudi Arabian painter whose work helped establish the foundations of contemporary Saudi art.  Born in Jeddah in 1940, she spent her childhood between Saudi Arabia, Cairo and England before studying Fine Art and Graphics at Saint Martin’s School of Art in London, graduating in 1976. Throughout a career spanning more than five decades, she dedicated her practice to preserving the architecture, traditions, clothing and daily life of the Hijaz, creating paintings that......