Soheila Sokhanvari (Persian: سهیلا سخنوری; born 1964)[1] is an Iranian-born British multidisciplinary visual artist.
[2][3][4] She is known for her drawings and egg-tempera paintings, often featuring her memories, or based on family photographs.
[1] She left Iran in 1978 at the age of 14 before the Iranian Revolution, to study in the United Kingdom.
[1] Sokhanvari's early work featured crude oil, and eventually expanded to sepia drawings of family and pre-Iranian Revolution.
[6] Her more recent artwork is made with brightly colored egg tempera on vellum (calf skin) and she uses a squirrel hair brush (which are reminiscent of the materials used in Persian miniatures).