Sarvnaz Alambeigi is among those rare species who has survived the art academy procedure - that delivers some artists to the dust heap of artistic talents and transfers some non-artists into gallery fillers - and has succeeded in returning to her original self. Now she has recaptured her childhood power to leave her mind and her hand free and let the painting flow. She has regained her childhood ability to paint without statement. She has acquired the freedom to paint the same thing day after day, with the same colour, or change her mind the next day and paint differently, with a different colour. She has gained the courage to paint things she does not identify. She has achieved the spontaneity to cover what she has already painted with other images and has improved the vision to distinguish the right moment when a painting is created, not fabricated. A multitalented soul who presents herself in the form of painter, filmmaker and author, Sarvnaz is an artist who once said the most terrible nightmare to her would be when she could no longer create. Sarvnaz Alambeigi is proof to the fact that art is not something which can be acquired, but that the artist is there and art is that which emerges from her or him. -Behzad Hatam