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Participant must submit a high-resolution image of the artwork, and email it to (kids@tirgan.ca<\/u>).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1.Banafsheh Erfanian<\/strong><\/p>\n Banafsheh Erfanian is a Toronto based visual artist. She was born in Tehran, Iran. She graduated from Tehran University of Art with a Bachelor of Graphic Design and an MFA in Illustration. Banafsheh has illustrated 28 books and magazines and written more than 25 articles in art reviews. Her work which has been exhibited in Iran, Italy, US, Canada, Russia, China, Japan and Serbia, has won awards such as the award of excellence of Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition, China, 2016; the first Prize of The Second Festival of Text Books Illustration, Iran, 2006, the encouragement prize of the 15th Noma Concours for Picture Book Illustration, Japan, 2004. Among others, Banafsheh has been short listed in numerous illustration and painting catalogues and has been awarded grants from Toronto Arts Council, Toronto Arts Foundation \u2013 RBC, and City of Toronto. She has also been teaching illustration and painting for 15 years. Most recently, she has worked as a mural and installation artist in Toronto and Iran.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2.Maryam Hafizirad<\/strong><\/p>\n Maryam Hafizirad is an Iranian painter, from Isfahan, Iran who is Deaf. A permanent resident of Canada, Maryam graduated from Isfahan University of Fine Arts in 2002. Maryam\u2019s first exhibition was in Iran at the age of 18. Since then her award-winning works have been shown individually and as part of the artistic group \u201cFarda\u201d, meaning \u201cTomorrow\u201d, in major cities of Iran, China, Germany, Malaysia and India. Following her heart\u2019s desire and performing from a place of strength as a Deaf artist, Maryam is a full-time visual artist today. Her passion for painting is the greatest engine driving her to succeed in a Hearing World. Let the artist share her world with you. Every artist has their own way of conveying their art. Maryam shares her exceptional vision of a silent universe through the metaphor of an underwater scene. Following the Persian classical painting in her early works, Maryam originally used human characters in her paintings. At that time her work was dark in subject and colour. When she moved to Malaysia and then settled in Canada, her work transformed. In the second generation of her work she realized this line was not projecting the essence of her evolving ideas and growth. She began using bright colours, symbols of God, love, life, water and fish, which became her true secret code in art. For instance, water reflects purity and the fish mirror the sincere human being and living in the silent world of beauty. You can see the fish in most of her themes, in keeping with the artist\u2019s unique method; pomegranates represent hidden love released and birds represent her newfound freedom in this country while maintaining Iranian values and tradition. She says: \u201cI would like to invite you to discover Persian nature, tradition, philosophy and culture through my art as I fuse an array of colors, textiles and techniques in a unique creative form. Rather than to confine my art to traditional works of my heritage on paper, I decided instead to experiment on fabric canvas. Art is a living; unfettered realm where most of my paintings have roots in divine values…\u201d The third generation of her work fuses symbols of freedom, love, and the silent, visually rich life with mixed media for a new installation experience. \u201cThe source of my painting is a strange, God-given urge to create, just as life first rose from the sea.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n
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