Amir Osman (1994), born and raised in London, is a Miniaturist painter, who paints landscapes in the size of a five pence coin. His work questions nature's characteristics and the emotional connection it has with people and how it makes them feel. This focuses on places that have a nostalgic and sentimental feeling towards the viewer and also places that are completely new to them. This is captured in a small scale to draw the viewers attention, for them to step closer and be transported into a world of miniature. The paintings are based on his own photographs of places he has visited. He also uses images from the internet to paint places he would like to visit and also combine his imagination to create fictional surreal places. He uses acrylics on watercolour paper. The paintings will be split into projects with various themes all relating to nature.

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​Amir’s interest in miniature art began through the curiosity of snuff boxes. He liked how the different landscape scenes at the front of the boxes told a story and how it transported him into these imaginary worlds. Also the fact that how much detail could be added into a small scale. He wanted to recreate the same feeling in his own work, but smaller, where he could tell a story about nature, and for the viewer to go on a journey of discovery, finding the obscure and the overlooked.

He does not use a magnifying glass and does not talk too much about how he makes his work, the techniques used and the process. He says that Art is like a magic trick, if you reveal how its done, it spoils the illusion and takes the mystery away from the artwork itself, where the imagination is not given a chance to figure out what it could be. He believes that it is important for the viewer to say how they feel and come up with their own interpretation of what the work means to them. Art should create more questions than answers. "What is Art. I do not really know. But if it moved you, then that is all that matters."