Hanieh's Story
Hanieh Khakbiz is an Iranian-Canadian artist born in 1983 in Tehran. Having held the paint brush in her hands from a very young age, her whole life is involved with art of painting and drawing.
She earned her bachelor’s degree in Art and Architecture from the University of Tehran in 2004. She learned the way to express her feelings with painting from her master, Taha Behbahani, an Iranian contemporary artist. Since 1997, up until her emigration to Canada in 2008, she has used different kinds of mediums such as oil color, acrylic, and watercolor, but she mostly uses oil color.
Hanieh has held three solo exhibitions back home in Iran in addition to participating in different group exhibitions.
She understands the positive impact art has had in her life and tries to pass it on to the young people and teaching them how to talk in the language of art.
In order to express my feelings, I use women's faces and figures to show how delicate and expressive our mind can be. Since I love colors, they just come over my pallet and help me to show the warmth, strength, delicateness, and many other aspects of a woman one could see at the same time—especially the power of creation which has been meant to be inside a woman's body and mind. As years have passed, I have learned it doesn't matter what I am trying to express in the pictures which are created by my mind and hands. Any single person will have different feelings and get different emotions from them. The only thing I have been trying to do is making people feel good, positive and pleasant when they stand in front of my artwork and looking at them.
In order to express my feelings, I use women's faces and figures to show how delicate and expressive our mind can be. Since I love colors, they just come over my pallet and help me to show the warmth, strength, delicateness, and many other aspects of a woman one could see at the same time—especially the power of creation which has been meant to be inside a woman's body and mind. As years have passed, I have learned it doesn't matter what I am trying to express in the pictures which are created by my mind and hands. Any single person will have different feelings and get different emotions from them. The only thing I have been trying to do is making people feel good, positive and pleasant when they stand in front of my artwork and looking at them.