Katy Kianush - Original Art Work

<body> <H1>Katy's Homepage at Art Arena, includes an outline of her life and works, links to her paintings, and articles which she has written on her favourite Art topics.<br> Iranian born artist Katy Kianush, has been living in the UK for over 27 years.</H1> <p>Katy started painting as a child, and her first illustrations for children's poetry books were published in Iran, when she was 10 years of age. As a teenager, she was highly commended by the Mayor of Ealing (London) for her paintings at the Arts, Crafts and Photographic exhibition (1979), opened by the Duchess of Kent.<br> More recently she illustrated the cover of a book of poems by Shadab Vajdi (Forest Books) which has been published in the UK.</p> <p>She uses a variety of media, including pen and ink, conte, watercolours, caran d' ache, and acrylics. Her subject matter includes <A HREF="persian.htm" target="content">Persian</A>, <A HREF="japan.htm" target="content">Japanese</A> and <A HREF="china.htm" target="content">Chinese</a> <A HREF="minc.htm" target="content">miniatures</A>, <A HREF="portc.htm" target="content">portraits</A> and figure paintings of local and ethnic origins and <A HREF="landc.htm" target="content">landscapes</A>.</p> <P>Her portraits and figure paintings, highlight the feelings and emotions of her subjects and make the viewer speculate about their experiences and thoughts.</P> <P>Although Katy's subject matter is varied, there is a unifying factor in all her work, that being a great attention to detail. She has a particular love of Persian, Japanese, and Chinese paintings, which she executes with intricacy in pen and ink, watercolour and acrylics.</P> <P>Katy's landscapes capture views from local and eastern countries and her love of <A HREF="wildlife.htm" target="content">animals</a> is revealed in much of her work. She also designs <A HREF="cardc.htm" target="content">personalised greeting cards</a> for special occasions, such as <A HREF="wedding.htm" target="content">weddings</a> and paints portraits by commission.</P> <P>Katy is a member of the Executive Council of the <A HREF="napa/index.html" target="_top">National Acrylic Painters Association (NAPA)</A>. She successfully directed and co-ordinated NAPA's very first London exhibition at the Westminster Gallery in 1999 (29<SUP>th</SUP> July '99 - 7<SUP>th</SUP> August '99).</P> <P>She received the <B>Royal Sovereign (Rembrandt) Award</B> at the NAPA Open Exhibition 1998 for the painting: An Afternoon Stroll, New England, and was awarded the <B>Daler-Rowney International Award</B> at the NAPA Open Exhibition 1999 for the painting: Autumn Kaleidoscope.</P> <P>At the NAPA 2002 Exhibition (Mariners Gallery, St. Ives), she received the <B>Artists and Illustrators Award</B> for all three of her Japanese symbolism paintings, Blossom, Chrysanthemum, and Autumn Leaves.</P> <P>Katy is also a member of the Wessex Artists and the Guild of Wiltshire Artists. Her Persian and Japanese miniatures featured at two solo exhibitions at the BBC World Service in the 1980's. Her solo exhibitions at the Wyvern Theatre and Arts centre (Swindon) in 1997, 1998, 2001 and 2003 incorporated a varied collection of her paintings. During the last nine years, she has also taken part in over sixty group exhibitions in London, Southampton, Bath, Salisbury, Romsey, Birmingham, Chester, Durham, St. Ives, Swindon, Marlborough, Devizes, Highworth and Wootton Bassett.</P> <P>Many of Katy's paintings are in private collections, both in the UK and abroad.<BR> Katy is listed in the book <B>"Who's Who in Art"</B>.</P> <p align="center">****</p> <p>You are viewing this page because your browser is incapable of displaying frames. Please update your browser and see our site as it should be viewed. 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