I was born in Tehran in 1989 and raised in a home where love, poetry, and creativity shaped the rhythm of daily life. From an early age, I was drawn to color and story. I grew up surrounded by Persian cuisine, traditional art, and the emotional beauty of my culture, all of which quietly laid the foundation for my artistic path. My father, a self taught designer, was my earliest inspiration. He wasn’t a painter, but he lived creatively choosing colors with care, shaping spaces with love, and encouraging me to see beauty where others might pass it by. Through him, I learned to feel art before understanding it. Painting became my way of making sense of the world, a quiet companion that stayed with me as I grew.
I began painting as a child, but I later pursued architecture, seeking to understand form, space, and structure from another perspective. Yet through every chapter, every move and every shift, painting remained my constant. It was never a side interest; it was a parallel life. Over time, it took center stage. My work today is an evolving conversation between tradition and memory, emotion and form. I draw heavily from Persian miniature painting and the stories of Shahnameh and Panj Ganj, texts I grew up hearing at home. But I don’t replicate those images; I reinterpret them through a personal lens, blending classical motifs with daily rituals, emotions, and fragments of the present. Each painting unfolds in layers, sometimes two, sometimes more. I build the surface like a visual archaeology, allowing one story to rest beneath another, each one part of the whole. Many works remain intentionally unfinished, not because they lack something, but because they invite something more. A connection. A question. A moment of reflection. These works speak of longing, resilience, identity, and the tension between beauty and loss.
This journey is deeply personal, shaped by the places I’ve lived and the people I’ve loved. And yet, with every canvas, I invite others in to feel, to wonder, and to complete the story with me.
