Roksana Jalali

Roksana Jalali (°1989) is an illustrator and painter. She grew up in Iran and works as an Early years educator in Brussels.

She earned a Bachelor of Education from NHL Stenden University in the Netherlands and a MA degree in Fine Art/ History of Art at Tarbiat Modarres University in Iran.

Her illustrations represent the stories that are inspired by ancient mythology like “One Thousand and One Nights, and Persian poems, “Masnavi-ye-Manavi” by Maulana Rumi.

Her artworks also represent fictional landscapes, portraits, and animals. While drawing, she intersperses different materials such as pen, acrylic, and watercolor pencils and use accidental moments in this process to explore ideas.

The three fish (Copy)

The merchant and the parrot (Copy)

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The duckling raised by a hen (Copy)

The bird's wise counsels (Copy)

The mouse and the camel (Copy)

Highlights

2019 - Group exhibition, Tarbiat Modares University (Teheran, Iran)
2017 - Group exhibition, Sheis Gallery (Teheran, Iran)
2015 - Group exhibition, Art University of Isfahan biennial
2014 - Group exhibition “Autumn narrative color”, Hamoon Gallery (Sari, Iran)
2013 - Group exhibition, Hamoon Gallery (Sari, Iran)
2007 - First rank in the “Water-colour” section at cultural art in field of painting, art Competition in school.
2006 - Third rank “Painting” in the 8th Scientific practical competition of schools in Isfahan.