ARTIST’S STATEMENT

“Art is an expression of the rapture of being…

unveiling a fragment of the radiance within all form.

Art awakens the soul…

to the timeless presence of beauty and truth.”

PROFILE

Essentially a Romantic, Arian’s use of light and shadow and exquisite figurative rendering, give his paintings a breathtaking life, realism, and beauty. He received his formal training in painting at the Frudakis Academy of Classical Realism in Philadelphia, PA; the Barnstone Studios in Allentown, PA; and at a private art academy in Florence, Italy. Arian’s work has been exhibited internationally in such cities as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Bombay, Paris, and Viareggio, Italy. His impressive collector list ranges from the former Princess of Iran and the Prince of Saudi Arabia, to celebrated rock musicians George Harrison and Michael Jackson. Jay Rockefeller, an avid art collector has called Arian’s work “extraordinary and beautiful…works rarely seen in this country today.”