Visual artist Maryam Deyhim Follow.Art Card

About me

I am a contemporary artist working across painting, drawing and digital processes. I create intricate, highly detailed compositions in which figures, symbols, patterns and fragments of imagined worlds come together to form a larger whole.

I am fascinated by the relationships between people: how we connect, how we coexist, and how individual experiences become part of something larger. My work often begins with individual figures or ideas and develops through repetition, symmetry and visual rhythm. As the composition grows, unexpected relationships emerge between its different elements.

I want my work to reward curiosity. From a distance, a piece may appear unified, ordered or even decorative, but as you move closer, individual characters, gestures and small narratives begin to reveal themselves. I like the idea that someone can return to the same work many times and continue to notice something they had not seen before.

What drives me is this tension between the individual and the collective, order and uncertainty, and what we see immediately versus what we discover when we spend more time looking. I am less interested in telling viewers what a work means than in creating a world they can enter, explore and interpret for themselves.