Partou Zia
Partou Zia was born in Tehran in 1958 and emigrated to London when she was twelve years old. She gained a PhD in Art History and moved to Cornwall, where she lived and worked until her death in 2008.
She mainly painted dream-like landscapes and domestic scenes and often incorporated into them her own figure – either clothed or nude. Her fascination with the spiritual was manifested through her paintings of overlooked corners in churches. She painted with thick layers of paint and free energetic brushstrokes.
