Jila Kamyab

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Above that her installations create contemplative and meaningful visual spaces through such combinations. Many of her paintings include abstract views and at the same time, resemble landscapes. Warm and bright colour stains have created stylized forms of nature on the cold backgrounds.

By creating strong compositions, she confronts the viewer with an eye catching vision.

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Jila Kamyab #Jila_Kamyab ژیلا کامیاب

Her pottery works with motifs and abstract geometrical forms and colors

refer to adobe and mudbricks in Iran traditional architecture. Her ceramics

of course are successful combinations of material, motifs and conventional colours with modern forms and technique. 

In her previous periods, the minimal backgrounds of her paintings were settings for a semi-abstract landscape far away. In her recent collection, however the artist came towards the nature and selected some elements like"the stone", among all other elements. The series is the artist’s observation through definition of home and the relation between human and nature. She has created forms similar to stones, rolling on each other; stones around destroyed walls representing the human figure in general.


There is a far away landscape, (fallen) stones besides the wall and an unlimited view of the earth and sky with a body at the horizon. In the conventional composition of this piece, the horizon on the left is higher

and such fracture creates a modernist flatness the lightness in the first plan contrasting the darkness of the last plan indicates a Naturalist landscaping. Harmonizing forms and colors has presented a magnificent view as

a modernist approach and exhibits an innovative combination

of figuration and abstraction.

Jila Kamyab is well known for her semi-abstract landscape paintings. Kamyab, an art professor, ceramicist and contemporary painter, was born in 1957, Kermanshah, Iran. She started studying at the Faculty

of Decorative Arts in 1976, and after a break, she continued her studies

at the undergraduate and master's level at Tehran University of Art and Architecture, and graduated in 1994.


She was awarded in The Second Iranian Contemporary Painting Biennial in 1993. Her first solo exhibition was held in Golestan gallery In 1995. She attended Raku course​ in atelier Mire in Paris in 2004. She is a member of Iran Painters Association, Iranian Ceramists Association and also Iranian Canadian Association of Visual Artists.