Beauty Resides Within You!

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My Studios are located in Calgary-Alberta Canada and Pleasant Hill- California United States where I design, paint, make patterns, teach and sew my textile arts. I was born and raised in Tehran, where I learned and fell in love with ancient Persian arts including Persian rug design, Persian Miniature, Tazhib, Persian carpet weaving, textile arts, and batik painting. 

After graduating with my first bachelor of arts in textile and fashion design in the year 2000 from the University of Jahad Daneshgahi in Tehran, I immigrated to Canada and later in 2012 became a snowbird living in both California and Alberta. I  continued my journey as a textile designer, fashion designer, and art and design teacher/Instructor for the past 22 years and had the opportunity to learn and appreciate western arts and cultures. I was also blessed to obtain a Bachelor of Education in Fine Arts and a Master's degree in Computational Media Design both from the University of Calgary. 

As a painter and textile artist, I find inspiration in fragments of nature, dreams, and visions I experience and in old forms of symbolic art-making in ancient Persia.  I employ a personal vocabulary of soft and curvy movements, fluid marks and vibrant colours to express the beauty and happiness that resides in the natural world. Within this realm, my work varies from representational to abstract. I paint in watercolour, oil, acrylic, Batik on silk, and Mixed media. I tend to work in series by choosing a theme of inspiration and creating a collection of the work in regard to the materials used.

Pari