Discomfort Painting

Parastoo Mahmoudi is a Canadian-Iranian Artist, who lives in Toronto. She started practicing her primary drawing skills in 1996 and advanced her skills under world-renowned Artists such as: Manouchehr Motabar, Mohammad Hossein Maher, and Maryam Mahin over the next 10 years. Under their guidance she studied the anatomy of the human body and subsequently portraits in great detail by drawing and sculpting life models and experimenting with different media and styles. Parastoo joined the Drawing and Painting program in OCAD University, in September of 2018. She has exhibited multiple painting collections across the world in Tehran, Dubai, and Toronto.