Healing Mother Earth: Vibrant wood burning, acrylic painting, and gold gilding with a sun motif symbolizing rebirth—feel its healing harmony in the gallery.
Fusion of Art and Nature
Multidisciplinary artist and photographer Helen Arjmandi explores illumination arts with the vibrant elegance of contemporary mediums. The wood engravings, gold-gilded paintings, and intricate floral patterns evoke spiritual clarity and nature’s harmony, inviting profound contemplation. Spanning paintings, woodwork, and abstract nature photography, her work weaves light, pattern, and emotional resonance, forging a timeless bond with the earth.
The Other Side of Big Bang: A cascading geomorphic mosaic traces the Big Bang’s radiant cone, unfolding into twin universes—ours in golden orbit, and an unseen mirror realm beyond.
Fiery Forest, Sapphire Surge
Flaming foliage dissolves into a sapphire surge—two untamed worlds sharing one breath. Gold and copper leaf catch the light like embers adrift on water, so the scene shifts between tropical heat and ocean calm with every step. Stand here, and feel the earth’s warm pulse cool into a deep, rhythmic tide.
Fiery Forest, Sapphire Surge: Acrylic painting, gold and cooper leaf gilding on wood, Soft gloss finish
A Palette for Equilibrium
Ember-rich oranges, emerald greens, and indigo blues form a recurring visual language in these works—where fiery energy gives way to oceanic stillness. Across paintings like Solar Grace, The Other Side of Big Bang, and Fiery Forest and Sapphire Surge, gold and copper leaf flicker like memory or motion, drawing the eye across luminous transitions. The palette is carefully tuned for equilibrium, guiding viewers from intensity to serenity—an invitation to pause, reflect, and reconnect.
Her Solar Grace: Acrylic painting, epoxy resin, and hand tiling on stucco and plaster surface
Where Line Becomes Light
Delicate biomorphic vines interlace with star-bright gilding, echoing the Persian art of Tazhib where ornament is meditation. Here, geometry softens into petals and feathers, turning a quiet wood panel into a breathing garden of light and lore.
My Reflection Bower: Intricate floral patterns on wood, a retreat corner reflecting nature’s dance.
Harmony Woven in Wood
From her Connecticut studio, Helen crafts stories of resilience and beauty. Her paintings and pyrography, inspired by Persian traditions, explore freedom and introspection through vibrant, harmonious forms.
Growing through the Barbed Wires – Eight-pointed flowers breaking barbed wires, reaching the blue sky, symbolizing freedom and resilience.
Cultural Threads of Spiritual Symbolism
Drawing from Persian mysticism and global spiritual traditions, Helen’s mandalas and star patterns radiate abundance and enlightenment. The “Eight Pointed Ornament” reflects the sacred geometry of Islamic art and Judeo-Christian symbolism, uniting matter and spirit in layered designs.
Our Constellation – A mesmerizing wood artwork with intricate patterns representing our solar system concepts and ancient celestial symbols in vibrant patterns.
Art Meets Science
Helen’s recent projects—like her collaborations with data scientists —explore how ancient visual logic can inform new technological aesthetics. Her work has been featured in gallery shows, academic partnerships, and cross-disciplinary exhibitions.
The Multiverse, Cosmos, and Our Tiny Being – Digital Art – A mesmerizing digital artwork symbolizing the symmetries and repeated structure that make the vast cosmos, the redundant universes, and humanity’s humble place within it.
Nature Photography
Through nature photography, Helen reveals the earth’s fleeting beauty, inviting a quiet connection with its harmonious spirit. Each frame tells a story of tranquility.
Nature Photography Serene Trust: What is she thinking? She rejects greed for life’s simple pleasures. Basking in the tender glow of a crisp spring day, she savors a few nuts and rests with serene trust, her back to the photographer’s open window, a friend, a mother she knows well.
Photography as a Poetic Lens
Beyond painting, Helen’s photography captures the fleeting beauty of nature and human emotion. Her abstract and nature compositions, marked by masterful light and texture, echo the same emotional resonance found in her painted works, offering a fresh perspective on her multidisciplinary vision.
Abstract Photography: A haunting nightscape where a shadowy figure drifts along an illuminated pier, guiding the soul toward a mysterious, uncharted ocean of introspection and enigma.
Blooming
As a metaphor for personal growth, blooming always faces either of the two diverging paths ahead.
Abstract Photography Eternal Crossroads: As we bloom and make choices, we carve our paths toward enlightenment’s radiant ascent or reckoning’s shadowed depths.
Bridges Tracing the Boundaries of Becoming
In Helen’s photography, bridges and pathways whisper deeper truths, gracefully capturing life’s unfolding journey. Bridges stand as symbols of both obstacles and triumph, cementing pivotal—often irreversible—choices, while life weaves its quiet magic not only across them but also around and beneath, reminding us that the truest moments often lie just beyond our perceived struggles, in the tender beauty of a fleeting chat, a stolen glance, or the comforting warmth of a steaming cup of tea we might otherwise overlook.
Abstract Photography Archway to Winter’s Stillness: Beneath a stone bridge archway, a quiet river mirrors a grove of snow-laden trees, their branches bowing under winter’s gentle weight. The air is hushed, the scene bathed in the soft, pale light of a cold season at rest—nature’s peaceful embrace framed in timeless elegance.
Miniature Elegance on Wood
Miniature painting on wood breathes life into Persian artistry with exquisite detail. Vibrant colors, gemstones, and gildings weave together to radiate cultural depth and harmony, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in the timeless beauty of elegant miniature art within a single, captivating frame.
Miniature art Dancers: Two figures in vibrant red, yellow, and blue swirl amidst mythical birds and deer, all merging in graceful forms
Art Meets Science
Helen’s recent projects—like her collaborations with data scientists on AI-generated Persian motifs—explore how ancient visual logic can inform new technological aesthetics. Her work has been featured in gallery shows, academic partnerships, and cross-disciplinary exhibitions.
Miniature art Leili & Majnoon
Art Meets Science
Helen’s recent projects—like her collaborations with data scientists on AI-generated Persian motifs—explore how ancient visual logic can inform new technological aesthetics. Her work has been featured in gallery shows, academic partnerships, and cross-disciplinary exhibitions.
Welcome To My World
Thank you for visiting and for appreciating the deep cultural language of art, symbolism, and design. My works are rooted in centuries of Persian visual tradition, reimagined for today’s most thoughtful collections and environments. If you are interested in acquiring or commissioning a monumental work—whether for a private space, public institution, or cultural landmark—I invite you to reach out directly. I look forward to connecting with those who share a vision for meaningful, enduring art.
– H. Arjmandi
Experience the Journey
Helen’s works are more than visual—they’re contemplative spaces. Whether exhibited at Yale Health, in sacred halls in Iran, or across digital installations, they invite you to reconnect—with nature, with wonder, and with each other.