eight professional stamp designers from 5,000 entries in a Blue Peter competition. In England, Shemza started to incorporate Islamic themes into his work. His Meem series of the 1960s was based on the first letter of the prophet Mohammed's name. His Roots series started in the 1970s and showed imaginary plants and roots derived from Arabic script below, while his silkscreen The Page from 1984 showed Arabic letters in illegible patterns. Exhibitions of Shemza's works were held in London, Durham, Lahore, Karachi, and Oxford. The Roots exhibition toured Pakistan after his death from a heart attack in 1985. He was survived by his wife and two daughters. Legacy Anwar Shemza's artworks are held in many public collections including the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, UK), Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (UAE), Lahore Museum (Lahore, Pakistan), Pakistan National Council of the Arts (Islamabad, Pakistan), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA), Sharjah Art Foundation (UEA), Tate (London, UK), His granddaughter, Aphra Shemza, is a multimedia artist. In 2020, she launched an Arts Council-funded project shemza.digital, featuring her grandfather's 1962 painting One to Nine and One to Seven. References External links Anwar Shemza website 1928 births 1985 deaths People from Shimla 20th-century Pakistani painters 20th-century English painters 20th-century English educators University of the Punjab alumni National College of Arts alumni Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art Urdu-language short story writers Pakistani dramatists and playwrights Pakistani emigrants to the United Kingdom Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom Pakistani people of Kashmiri descent English people of Kashmiri descent English male painters English printmakers Urdu-language writers from Pakistan Urdu-language novelists Pakistani calligraphers Pakistani Muslims Kashmiri writers 20th-century English male artists