Haleh Fotowat
Artist Statement:
Inspiration for my paintings comes from unpredictability, urgency, continuity, beauty, humor, and enthusiasm that is omnipresent in all forms of life. My painting process consists of spontaneous, uninhibited drawing of shapes, trajectories, words, and numbers, usually with a pen or pencil. I often listen to improvised jazz music while I work, letting my hand go free and move as it needs to. I sometimes even dance. Then I add paint, going back and forth between drawing and painting. I watch, listen to, and encourage conversations between individual elements that surface as I go along, as they form a coherent 'multicellular life form’.
Inspiration for my paintings comes from unpredictability, urgency, continuity, beauty, humor, and enthusiasm that is omnipresent in all forms of life. My painting process consists of spontaneous, uninhibited drawing of shapes, trajectories, words, and numbers, usually with a pen or pencil. I often listen to improvised jazz music while I work, letting my hand go free and move as it needs to. I sometimes even dance. Then I add paint, going back and forth between drawing and painting. I watch, listen to, and encourage conversations between individual elements that surface as I go along, as they form a coherent 'multicellular life form’.
Artist Bio:
Haleh Fotowat grew up in Tehran, Iran, where she began her practice and training in visual arts (Painting and photography) and music. She moved to the US to pursue a doctorate in Neuroscience and then to Canada for post-doctoral studies. Her focus on painting intensified after moving to Canada, where she also studied creative painting at the Ottawa School of Art. Since 2014 she has exhibited her paintings in various solo and group shows.
Haleh currently lives in Watertown, MA, where she paints at her home studio. She is also a scientist at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.
In her scientific research she aspires to discover the cellular underpinnings of spontaneous and evoked actions of living organisms. Through her art she explores subconscious forces of her mind that give rise to the drawings she generates spontaneously as a starting point for her paintings.
Haleh Fotowat grew up in Tehran, Iran, where she began her practice and training in visual arts (Painting and photography) and music. She moved to the US to pursue a doctorate in Neuroscience and then to Canada for post-doctoral studies. Her focus on painting intensified after moving to Canada, where she also studied creative painting at the Ottawa School of Art. Since 2014 she has exhibited her paintings in various solo and group shows.
Haleh currently lives in Watertown, MA, where she paints at her home studio. She is also a scientist at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.
In her scientific research she aspires to discover the cellular underpinnings of spontaneous and evoked actions of living organisms. Through her art she explores subconscious forces of her mind that give rise to the drawings she generates spontaneously as a starting point for her paintings.
