When Silence Becomes Strength

Rehab holds a BA (Hons) in Architecture from Kingston University London, graduating with a 2:1. She is the founder of Architects Insight, a platform covering architecture, interior design and the built environment.

As a fine artist working in the surrealist tradition across oil, watercolour, acrylic and mixed media, her work centres on human portraiture and psychological states, examining how emotion, fear and endurance shape the human form. Her ongoing series, Macro & Micro, extends this inquiry through the shifting scale between the human and the cosmic. The painting on this novel's cover is her own work, completed before the book had a first chapter.

The two practices have never been separate for her. Both begin with structure, and both end where structure runs out.

"We all know what it feels like to break quietly, to appear strong while unravelling where no one can see." Rehab R. Adil