Painting with Lida invites us into the world of artist Lida Sherafatmand, where painting is not simply an act of representation but a way of thinking, feeling and responding to the world. Through conversation, observation and the gradual making of an artwork, each episode explores how colour, form, nature and memory can give expression to experiences that words alone may not hold.

At its heart is Lida’s philosophy of Florescencism, the idea of flowering through difficulty. Rather than turning away from conflict, uncertainty or human vulnerability, her practice asks what might grow from them. Painting with Lida therefore becomes more than an art series: it is a quiet exploration of creativity as resilience, beauty as a serious human language, and the possibilities that emerge when we allow ourselves, and one another, to flourish.