TEHRAN – Illustrator Ghazaleh Bigdelu has said that her illustrations are mainly reflections of her childhood dreams.
“When I was a child, I wanted to see some pictures that were not done by the illustrators in the books, and now I draw the images I used to want to see when I was a child”, Bigdelu, who recently displayed a collection of her works at the Iranian Artists Forum, told the Persian service of MNA on Saturday.
“We used to make sentences and fill in the empty spaces with proper words when we were children, and now I think we can fill the empty spaces with illustrations,” she explained on choosing the title “Empty Space” for her exhibit.
The works were created over the past 10 years for different children’s books. “However the books were never published and I thought I should display them in an exhibit,” she added.
“In paintings, the artist values personal feelings while in illustrations, the artist cannot ignore the viewers, which of course helps the illustrator to communicate with the viewers better,” she said on the difference between paintings and illustrations.
Bigdelu is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Tehran and so far has held several exhibits.
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