Nayera Majedi

Trained as a classical miniaturist in prestigious Tehran Visual Art Center, Nayera Majedi graduated in 1985. She was then an instructor for fifteen years, teaching courses that include Persian painting, gilding, drawing, and fundamentals of design and art at both the Tehran Visual Art Center and the Tehran Cultural Heritage Center for Traditional Art Studies (1986- 1999). She has exhibited worldwide from Europe, the Middle East, to the United States. Her training allows her to be one of the foremost interpreters of the Classical tradition of Persian painting incorporating all the major periods of artistic development. While Persian paintings are generally constrained to small sheets of high quality paper, Nayera Majedi has extracted stylistic elements of floral design in these line renderings of classical images. In her own paintings, she adapts traditional colors, forms, patterns, and symbols into her own new style, especially distinguished by her signature clouds. [ read my full Bio ]