See also: PORTRAITS Painting and Drawings Brush and Ink Details and Colour Drawings Juvenalia Edward Mirza uses traditional methods of drawing and painting (having been taught the Italian approach to drawing), but also considers how the figurative line, and our experience of figuration, or a three dimensional universe, may also be seen as a symbol especially when superimposed against symbols of another order.  A tension builds up between symbols from three planes, the natural, the preternatural, and the transcendent. Here, a semiotic explanation of symbols is disgarded in favour of  medieval animistic one (so that all symbols may be seen to be indexical, that is, containing a direct energaic link with their origin). This dialogue between the natural, the supernatural and the transcendent may also be seen to involve the interplay of three different kinds of light: natural, preternatural, and transcendent (i.e. Divine) Edward Mirza’s paintings combine an enjoyment of figuration, and the evocation of moods, with the possibility of a metaphysical, symbolical realm of expression.