Mahshid Moochani is an Iranian surrealist painter with a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication and a Master’s degree in Fine Arts. Since 2004, she has pursued a professional artistic career, showcasing her works in over thirty international solo and group exhibitions. Her paintings have been exhibited in prestigious festivals and galleries across Turkey, the United Kingdom, France, and Iran, earning recognition from critics and collectors alike.
Moochani’s art forms a delicate bridge between imagination and reality a poetic realm where humanity, nature, and the subconscious meet. In 2020, she established her personal studio in Istanbul, marking a new chapter in her creative journey. There, her ideas, dreams, and inner experiences transform into a universal language of color and form. Each of her works reflects a profound quest for meaning, beauty, and inner peace.
Artist Statement – World of Inner Peace
I believe the world begins inside us.
Every canvas I paint is an attempt to reconcile the storms of thought with the quiet field of awareness beneath them. I explore peace not as the absence of conflict, but as a living creature—sometimes shy, sometimes radiant—that grows only when we face ourselves gently.
For me, the rhinoceros is strength without violence.
The clown is vulnerability disguised in laughter.
The balloon is the soul that refuses to sink.
The sea is everything we cannot name but always feel.
We all carry fragments of childhood, desire, pain, and wonder. Painting is my way of gathering those fragments and placing them into one sky—so that even in chaos, a viewer might find a moment of breathing, a small island of stillness.
World peace, inner peace—they are the same door.
If one heart softens, the world changes by one breath.
I paint for that breath.
