Soraya French


Soraya French is an Iranian artist known for her vivid use of colour in acrylic based multimedia and she has produced two books 30 Minute Acrylics, and Dynamic Acrylics and an instructional DVD.

Work

She is a regular contributor to The Artist magazine and regularly holds painting workshops in her studio at Project Workshops. She is a demonstrator for GOLDEN artist colors.
She is the President of the Society of Women Artists and the Andover Art Society, a member of Society of All Artists, Society for Floral Painting and Wallop Artists. She has won various awards, the most notable are the Daler Rowney Choice Awards at Society of Women Artists.
Soraya is a versatile artist working in watercolours, oils, pastels, acrylics and mixed media in a variety of subject matters such as musicians, café scenes and African market scenes amongst others. Many of her subjects are travel based and people in everyday life situations feature a great deal in her work, light and colour are the two important elements in her paintings together with semi abstract passages and a sense of ambiguity where she allows the viewer to make up the story.

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