About me

Negin painting

In the meantime, I studied cinema and film directing in Art University of Tehran. I have made several documentaries which have been broadcasted worldwide. Besides, I followed intensive painting courses inside and outside university and trained by several educators, as my love for painting never left me.

Whether as a voice artist, painter, or filmmaker, my work is always an attempt to express the same truth: myself and the reality as I perceive it. Each medium becomes a different language through which I explore my ongoing journey of self-discovery, a journey that unfolds through the lives of others and through environments that reflect fragments of my own inner landscape.
My path as an artist is far from straightforward. It is full of contradictions, shaped by my experience of living between contrasting worlds, light and shadow, silence and voice, movement and stillness. These oppositions breathe through my work, revealing the tension and harmony that coexist within the act of creation itself.

In painting, I am drawn to realism, not as mere representation but as a form of contemplation, a meditation on presence and absence. My stilllifes are, in a way, self-portraits: seeking purity and simplicity while revealing the quiet dignity of ordinary objects and the gentle play of light. Through disciplined observation, I try to capture not only the visible but also the invisible: the calm breath behind a still arrangement, the trace that lingers on a surface, the poetry of the everyday. Layer by layer, I search for the truth of what I see and the essence of what I feel. In this process, the stillness of a fruit, the fall of shadow, or the softened glint on a surface become vessels of reflection. Within that quiet dialogue between observation and emotion, between outer form and inner resonance, I find the meeting point of reality and the self.

Negin Kianfar

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