"The supreme historians are artists. All authentic art is memory, whether it was art in the past, art in the present or in the future. It is all about memory. I was born with a warehouse of memories."       Jamali

Jamali was raised in the foothills of the Himalayas near the Khyber Pass. The son of prominent physicians, Jamali was sent to a British military academy at age 13. By the age of 16 he was expelled. For five years Jamali lived in the Rajhastan Desert among the Sufi, a people devoted to worship through dance. The Sufi"s belief in a life of inner calm and reflection was to have a great influence on the young Jamali and his future art.

Eventually, Jamali returned home and achieved degrees in Physics, Chemistry and Advanced Economics. Further exploration ensued, including time in the High Himalayas and extensive travel in Europe and eventually a migration to the U.S. By 1976, Jamali recognized his calling and devoted himself to a life of painting, discipline and meditation.

The perennial theme in Jamali's artwork is an inner search that is expressed in triumphal and mythic imagery, originating from his dream life. Jamali ritualizes this new mythology by dancing the paintings...in the midst of the elements...and natural world ...creating saturated esoteric paintings.

Preeminent art critic, Donald Kuspit, heralds Jamali as the originator of a school of painting he calls Mystical Expressionism. "This movement combines elements of the raw emotion of German Expressionism, the play of light in French Impressionism, and the abstract elements of American Abstract Expressionism in a new totality."