Biography: Jila Kamyab
Jila Kamyab was born in Kermanshah, Iran. She studied art and pottery first at the Tehran University of Fine Art and later at the L'Atelier Mire in Paris. Kamyab has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions and has won several prizes including the Certificate of Merit of the Second Tehran Painting Biennial. She is a member of the Society of Iranian Painters and the Society of Iranian Potters. Her work speaks of a certain search for perfection, meditation and East Asian spiritual influence. Her paintings exhibit a search for naturalism. The way she dabs spots of paint onto her canvas reminds us of the speckled order of nature itself. Like classical Iranian art, Kamyab's works do not have a central light source because light only emanates from that unified consciousness of all enlightenment. In her own words, 'we all live in a society where we are 'poets without words. Were we to find our words we might well have all been as eloquent as light itself.' Kamyab has been deeply influenced by the shepherd poet of Iran, the Naked Baba Taher, whose poems speak volumes in but the fewest words. Hence Kamyab's canvasses carry volumes of silence and empty space with dabs of color on them to give just a hint of the elements the artist has in mind. Presently Jila Kamyab is living and working in Tehran.
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