Soheila Keyani

Growing up in Iran until I was 12 and 1/2, my life was filled with colour, energy and an ever flowing abundance of fresh food. In autumn as children we would pop in to our next door neighbour's house, knowing we were always going to be offered sharon fruit freshly picked from the tree in the courtyard, shades of deep orange, fleshy and juicy. Years later I still feel and savour the pleasure and sensation. In spring streets are wildly ablaze with pink and white blossoms. In winter, clear moonlit skies reflecting on the vibrant white snow, creates a cosy mystical, romantic atmosphere. In spring, we ate the first fruits before they became ripe: green, crunchy, velvety almonds; in winter we warmed our hands with freshly cooked deep, red, juicy beetroot from the street-seller. In summer in the fruit orchard, while adults rested from the heat, we played and watched the shimmering sun rays in the transparent air.

My paintings are all about colour, texture, and energy in motion - impressions of all things I see, hear and feel, from past, present and future. As a friend, Candace, said recently, if feelings and emotions could be a picture, your painting are it."

Awards and Recognition

Special Merit category for Primal Power - won at an online art competition run by online gallery light space and time - October 2013

BIBA 2007 Finalist in the category of Learning and Development

EXHIBITIONS
INCH wall gallery space - Taplow Court - 2015
Windsor Emporium - September 2014
Soheila Keyani Art Show 2 on Youtube - August 2014
Art on the Street - June 2014
At Sainsbury's superstore Maidenhead - November 2013
Windsor Street Gallery - August 2013
Soheila Keyani's Art Show on Youtube – created 2012
Sisters in Spirit/Alexandra Galleries - at Original Gallery - Oct 2010
Red Gate Gallery – March/April 2010
VAAD gallery at the Custard Factory – Birmingham - November 2009
The Foundry – October 2009
Taplow Court – INCH gallery - June 2009
First Out Cafe October-November 2008
OXO Tower Restaurant Bar & Brasserie July/August 2008
Barbican Library July 2008
La Galleria - Pall Mall - Feb 2008
London Picture Gallery Crawford Street, W2, Dec 07-Feb 08
Morley Gallery London, Waterloo, July 2007
Alexandra Galleries Camberwell, London, Jun-Dec 2006
St Johns Church, Waterloo, London June 2005
Wheeler Auditorium, Berkeley University, California October 2004
The Mission Notting Hill December 2003
Barbican Library March 2003
Open House December 2000
Open House June 2000
Rudolf Steiner House April 2000
Cafe Italia Vauxhall 2000
Cafe d'Art Pimlico 1999/2000
Back to Work Gallery - 1999
Limelight Lewisham Library 1998