Painter · Morocco
Verdgini
The studio name of Akdim Ali. Abstract paintings built in layers — poured, scraped, scratched back, painted over — until the surface keeps a record of everything that happened to it. Twenty-four works, available as originals and archival editions.
“Let your dreams carry you beyond the edges of infinity.”Verdgini, studio note
Twenty-four works
Numbered as they were catalogued. Select a work to see it larger and to find where it can be acquired.
Originals, editions, objects
Original paintings
The paintings themselves — acrylic and mixed media on canvas. Availability and dimensions on request; write to the studio through Instagram or the store.
Enquire →Fine art prints
Every work in this catalogue is issued as an archival paper print, stretched canvas, framed print, metal, acrylic or wood — produced and shipped on demand.
Browse prints →Objects
The same images on tapestries, tote bags, phone cases, notebooks, mugs, cushions and greeting cards — a painting you can carry.
See the range →A surface that remembers
Verdgini is the studio name of Akdim Ali, a painter working in Morocco. The paintings begin wet and stay unresolved for a long time: colour is poured and tilted, dragged with a blade, scratched back to the layer beneath, then painted over again. Nothing is sanded away. What is left is a surface that remembers every decision.
Colour arrives at full strength — madder, cadmium yellow, ultramarine, and a black that is never quite flat. Titles come afterwards, as a way of naming what the surface turned out to be: a cave, a storm, a window, a figure. The work runs between two poles that never fully reconcile, and that is the point: the monogram is severe and classical; the painting under it is not.
New work is posted first on Instagram, where the studio has shared paintings, studio shots and outdoor pieces since 2021.
Write to the studio
For originals, commissions, exhibitions or press — Instagram is the fastest route, and the store handles print orders directly.