Parirokh ПAрирох

Born in the heart of the home of cricket, Edgbaston "where the trees begin", Parirokh is an accidental Brummie, resident in Switzerland - the first homeland of her own choice. Her journey to Geneva has taken her from England to Tehran to London, Oxford, Paris, Hong Kong and New York.

As a child she used to write and illustrate her own poems and later on copy paintings by Matisse and van Gogh. While at Oxford “I had the privilege of walking in and out of drawing classes at the Ruskin - all sitting figures or tables and chairs piled high to be rendered precisely. A suitable point of departure into abstract painting!”

Her work expresses the impenetrable mystery of all that we are and all that surrounds, motivates, regulates and controls us: “My constant awareness that I am but as an ant in the celestial garden. I am no more aware of what is above me as the minute creature crushed under my foot is of me. I navigate the dark impossibility of infinity and nothingness. The mind incapable of discerning a non-existent shore in search of the gate to wisdom. The body, a virtual universe in its own right, with the intelligence of its innumerable living cells, with their administrations, functions and secrets”.

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- Miss Mary's School Tehran
- St. Faith’s School Oxford
- Further studies including the history of art at the Oxford College of Technology.
- University of Oxford (St. Hugh's College)MA in Oriental Studies (and many hours' drawing at the Ruskin School of Art).
- Research into the literature of Soviet Tajikistan
- College of Law London; Barrister-at-Law (called to the Bar of England and Wales and of Hong Kong)

- Works on Paper at the Quadrangle Gallery, Jericho, Oxford.

- Works on Paper at the Oxford Gallery.

-Bar & Bench art exhibitions, Lincoln’s Inn

-Works exhibited (abstract water colours) at Safiniya Designs, South Kensington, London.

-Works exhibited (abstract oils) at 'The Landmark' Hong Kong.

-Works exhibited at East Hills Gallery, Long Island, New York.

-Works exhibited by the well known gallerist, the late Marguerite Motte, at the Galerie Motte, Geneva. One woman shows and annual group exhibitions of abstract oils and works on paper.

-Presentation of a dossier 'flag project' or 'Etand'Art - Landmark' - for the renovation works scaffolding at the Palais Wilson, Geneva.

-Exhibition at Ramko Sanat Merkezi gallery, Istanbul, Turkey. A two man show, including sculpture by Brian Fetherston (US 1955 - 2006).

-Several exhibitions (Amis de l'Atelier) at the atelier of the late Swiss artist A. Potter, Carouge, Geneva.

-Group exhibition (works in acrylic and ink on paper) at Théâtre Les Salons, Geneva, under the high patronage of the Italian Consul General.

-Working on two projects, to be accompanied by a book of reflections entitled 'Just Think':
1. An installation dealing with the concept (or mis-conce...