Helen Arjmandi · Mixed media
Geometric, Biomorphic
& Miniature
Persian light in wood, gold, and mirror — each work with a short film of its making.
Heritage, reworked
Persian illumination, sacred geometry, biomorphic ornament, and miniature painting—woodburned, engraved, gilded, and inlaid with mirror. Many of these pieces were filmed as they were made.
Sacred geometry · gilding
Healing Mother Earth
Built on an ancient Persian Shamse, or sun-medallion — a symbol of healing and rebirth, worked in acrylic, woodburning, and gold gilding on wood.
Acrylic · woodburning · gold gilding · 41½ in diameter · 2022
Biomorphic · resilience
Growing Through Barbed Wires
Eight-pointed flowers break through barbed wire and reach toward the blue sky — freedom, persistence, and life overcoming confinement.
Acrylic · woodburning · 17.5 × 17.5 in · 2019
Biomorphic · ornament
My Reflection Bower
Intricate floral patterns on wood — a retreat corner that reflects nature's dance, drawn from the Persian garden tradition.
Acrylic · woodburning · 17.5 × 17.5 in · 2019
Biomorphic · garden
Paradise
A Persian paradise garden rendered in ornament and gilding — the walled garden as an image of harmony and abundance.
Acrylic · woodburning · 30 × 22½ in · 2019
Naghashi-Khat · miniature
Miniature Painting
Miniature painting fused with calligraphy and ornament — the Naghashi-Khat tradition, as in the Leyli & Majnun works of love, longing, and transcendence.
Naghashi-Khat on wood · 17.5 × 17.5 in · 2019
Mixed media · applied
Dining Set & Chairs
Persian ornament carried onto furniture — hand-worked pattern and gilding across a dining set, where the decorative tradition becomes something lived with.
Mixed media on furniture · 2019
In process
Bliss
A painting filmed as it is made — colour, gesture, and the slow build of the surface, from first marks to finish.
Acrylic · woodburning · 17.5 × 17.5 in · 2019
Also
A separate body of contemporary abstraction — Wounds, Rupture & Survival →