Hello!
I’m Shirin, an artist, expressive art therapy practitioner and art educator with a background in fashion and a practice that weaves together art, psychology, and spirituality.My inclination towards fashion and art began at a very young age, thanks to growing up in a creative home where I learned to sew from my mother and paint from my sisters. My distinct, angular, and urgent style of sketching portraits,  first capturing iconic moments from the worlds of fashion and cinema, has now evolved into more expressionistic and abstract forms. Immersing myself in the playspace - that liminal landscape of imagination and playful expression — the canvas becomes a container for reflections that emerge from my inner world, dreams, and the depths of the unconscious.Whether through a single artwork or a research-based body of work, what excites me most is the possibility of poeisis - the knowing that arises when something entirely new is shaped into being, and the way we are, in turn, shaped by both our inner and outer worlds.