Katayoun Rouhi (Iranian, b. 1965)

Rouhi Katayoun settled in France in 1984, and opened a studio in Auvers-sur-Oise, a town made famous by the Impressionists. Her paintings are often based on photographs which she then redraws and then inscribes poems in Farsi where the graphic beauty predominates over the content. She has had exhibitions of her work in Auvers-sur-Oise and in Paris.