Mahfam Barzegarpour

Mahfam Barzegarpour

Mahfam Barzegarpour (b. 1994, Tehran) is a British-Iranian contemporary artist based in Birmingham, UK. She holds an MA in Fine Art from Birmingham School of Art.

Her painting practice is rooted in imagination, creative inquiry, and material experimentation. Moving between abstraction and representation, her work incorporates biomorphic forms, expressive colour, and visual symbolism to explore the relationship between imagination, perception, and artistic expression. Rather than adhering to a fixed visual language, she approaches painting as an evolving process in which intuition, research, and experimentation continually inform one another.

Barzegarpour’s practice encompasses several distinct yet interconnected bodies of work. Her spiritually informed paintings draw upon biblical narratives and symbolic imagery, exploring the relationship between faith, interpretation, and visual expression. Another body of work, developed during her MA studies, engages with memory, identity, resistance, and collective experience, examining the capacity of painting to communicate loss, remembrance, and hope.

Alongside these conceptual investigations, she continues to explore the material and sensory possibilities of painting through textured and relief surfaces, layered compositions, and biomorphic abstraction. Her ongoing research into colour theory considers the relationships between colour, visual perception, and emotional response, contributing to the development of her evolving artistic language.

Central to Barzegarpour’s practice is the freedom to move beyond a single subject, style, or narrative. Through imagination, material exploration, and conceptual inquiry, she investigates how painting can transform ideas and experiences into new visual possibilities.