About the Artist
I began painting during my first year of university while studying architecture at UPM in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. My journey into the world of art was not initially tied to my academic path, but was inspired by a lifelong connection to the poetry and mysticism of Rumi, a connection rooted deeply in my Iranian heritage. Since the age of fifteen, I have read Rumi’s verses in Persian, and at twenty-one, as I began a new chapter of my life abroad, I continued to explore his work in English.
My first painting, inspired by the relationship between Rumi and Shams, remains a work I hold dear. It was a visual exploration of their encounter, one half of the canvas representing Shams, the other Rumi, painted with flowing watercolors that dissolved and merged in the center. This piece set the tone for my artistic path: a process of free-flowing creativity without rigid plans or final images fixed in my mind.
Artistic Style and Inspirations
Over the past five years, my artistic journey deepened under the mentorship of Rasooli, a Persian Sufi artist whose philosophy and teaching resonated deeply with my own spiritual inclinations. Through Rasooli, I learned the foundations of infusion art, a form where emotion, spirit, and brush move as one.
While I developed technical skills through these studies, I also grew increasingly confident in allowing my own style to emerge. My paintings are acts of emotion and intuition. Often, I approach the canvas with no preconception of the final outcome. I begin with large, liberated brushstrokes, allowing the piece to reveal itself through feeling rather than thought. Some works are completed within a single session, while others evolve slowly over months or even years, depending on how the emotions and inspiration unfold.
For me, painting is not a controlled act but a collaboration with the unknown, each color and form manifesting as it needs to, in its own time.
Concept and Themes
The core concepts within my art are freedom, flow, and joy. My practice is about translating all emotions, even sorrow and loneliness, into color, movement, and life on canvas.
I believe that pain, like any deep feeling, can be transformed through the act of painting. One vivid example is a piece I created during Nowruz, the Persian New Year, a time traditionally filled with family, color, and celebration. Alone during that season, I began painting from a place of solitude, but what emerged was a vivid, joyful tapestry of colors.
In my view, once the initial emotional spark invites me to the canvas, the process belongs to something larger than myself. I am not the ultimate creator; I am a medium. The painting unfolds through me, a dialogue between spirit, color, and form, rather than something I impose by force or calculation.
Milestones
The core concepts within my art are freedom, flow, and joy. My practice is about translating all emotions, even sorrow and loneliness, into color, movement, and life on canvas.
I believe that pain, like any deep feeling, can be transformed through the act of painting. One vivid example is a piece I created during Nowruz, the Persian New Year, a time traditionally filled with family, color, and celebration. Alone during that season, I began painting from a place of solitude, but what emerged was a vivid, joyful tapestry of colors.
In my view, once the initial emotional spark invites me to the canvas, the process belongs to something larger than myself. I am not the ultimate creator; I am a medium. The painting unfolds through me, a dialogue between spirit, color, and form, rather than something I impose by force or calculation.
Vision
At the heart of my vision lies a desire for dialogue, not a one-way presentation of art, but a living conversation between my paintings and the people who experience them. Because I do not paint clear images, real objects, or even formal abstractions, each viewer is invited to bring their own emotions, memories, and interpretations to the encounter.
My dream is for my art to feel accessible and alive, to remind people that art is not a distant or exclusive world. Everyone holds creativity within them; some simply have more blocks to dissolve. Through my work, I hope to create spaces where people can reconnect with their own artistic spirit, and perhaps even feel inspired to create themselves.
Above all, I reject arrogance in art. I do not paint to deliver a message or assert a singular meaning. I paint to open a space where conversations, between colors, between hearts, can happen naturally.