Franco-Iranian Nazanin POUYANDEH, who lives in exile in Paris, is emerging as a powerful painter of her generation. She says she sees in a flash her characters, their relation and their place in space. She then recreates her vision by photographing models, often her own friends. She paints from her photos of portion of her photos. She is very particular about the rich details of her paintings, the larger ones often take two months to complete.

Art historian Nadeije Laneyrie-Dagen writes in the catalogue of her latest exhibition:

"I first saw a painting by Nazanin Pouyandeh in 2009… The painting intrigued me for a long time as I did not know hat to think of it. I had discovered Persian miniatures as a teenager and has found it restful to discover a world that was not priotised like western art but proposed as a whole and all at once a panorama observed by a God."