Hi, I'm Laleh
I am a self taught artist, currently living in Liverpool UK. My journey to becoming an artist is an unusual story, starting from medicine and science, moving from one career to another for over 30 years, searching for something that was not only a job, but that I enjoyed doing. Despite discovering art at quite a late stage of life at 48 years old, I have had a lot of achievements in a short term, including a few national and international awards. I have never looked back since found art, and consider myself the living proof of “it is never too late”!
My Recent Work
My main interest is portraits from pets, wild animals and people. I mostly work with colour pencils, graphite and pastels.
What I like to capture in my drawings are expressions, personalities and characters in people and also in pets and wild animals.
I like paying attention to details. I believe those details in the eyes, lines, smiles and shadows will make all the difference, have to be recorded accurately and essentially will make the almost exact likeness, without making the drawing too realistic to look like a photograph and take the artistic essence away. I spend a lot of hours, could be 20 or 150 hours, depending on the size and the elements on the portrait, to get what I want, but I think it is worth every minute.