About Me

About Me

About ten years ago during my military service, I was required to work at the Cultural Heritage Bureau. It was there that I first observed a wood craft artist at work and the training received by his apprentices. From then on, I fell in love with this craft. I fell in love with the look, the feel, the smell of the wood and realised my ambition was to train as a craftsman just like them. After a lengthy conversation, the wood craft artist suggested I could go along at the end of my working day, once the staff had left the building and learn some of the skills. So, I would lock the doors and secretly go to the craft room to be taught by my wonderful mentor. I took every opportunity to practice as much as I could and fell more and more in love with this beautiful art. I learnt how to master saws and how to cut a straight line in wood. I then moved on to curved lines and after only one week I began to make a simple plain wood image. My mentor told me I was very talented and gave me increasingly sophisticated images. I felt very proud when my trainer told me there were students who had been doing this for a year who were much less accurate than me. 

   After my military service ended, I returned home and decided to work with an old, very experienced, skilled master in order to progress to a more advanced level. Within that time, I not only improved my skills, but also learned, through his example, to be a more patient, more kind and to love others just as he did. I will always strive to be like him. Sadly, he died a few months later, but his memory and example remain within me. 

   I was fortunate to be able set up my own workshop and after several years I have obtained a license from the Iranian Cultural Heritage and Crafts Organisation. This gave me the recognition I needed as a professional, skilled Wooden Mosaic Artist, and enabled me to access advanced wood mosaic boards.