about me
My name is Sahar Bayat. Sahar means early morning, when a new day is dawning; the dawn when I’m no longer imprisoned, the dawn when mountain passengers admire the flowers in which warriors have lied under. That’s why I’ve chosen the name “Mattina”.
It's almost a decade that drawing has intertwined with my life, not as a job or leisure, but as living itself. I look around not merely to behold, but to create: in my surroundings, I witness elaborations that are not observable before the watching eyes, and I create in my mind what I don’t see around. I am the omnific of my own world, which is depleted without elaborations.
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I’ve seen countless Iranian paintings and miniatures, and perhaps that’s where my passion for details comes from. Drawing is no job or fun to me, but life: each morning waking up is out of my love to draw, and each night going to sleep is for the sake of my yearning to see new subjects; penless, paperless, the air does no good to me.