I would like to augment the narrative ‘blog’ on Thamer, if it is not too late.

I met Thamer through the Bridge of Hope exhibit at the Delaware art museum through another Iraqi artist, Fadhel. I came to understand that Thamer was a graphic designer, in addition to his extraordinary painting talents of spatial form and composition. I hired him as a Graphic Designer to assist in a six-month rebranding project for an international steel manufacturing firm. His work was beyond comparison in the 15 years I have been working in corporate marketing. With a team of two, we somehow completed a branding project and created professionally beautiful marketing materials. Due to changes in the North American economic conditions, our investors sold the steel company and we were forced to remove his position. I do plan to offer him more projects as work becomes available.

In the blog, you mention he obtained work, but I do not think it really exposes his ability in other artistic realms. I just thought I would expand a bit and I think it would mean a lot to Thamer.