Inspired by her travels through Africa and Latin America, Shazia was able to develop her ideas and styles and often drew using only pen and paper, unravelling the sentiments shown in in her honest and frank sketches to date.
Returning home after her travels, Shazia worked for a high profile company as a studio designer. Being within four walls in a busy demanding office was a far cry from that of her heady days of travelling and very much in complete contrast. Resigning from this hectic working office based world was therefore inevitable and began to follow a path of working freelance before starting a family and embarking on the career which we all know and love, as an Artist