Second Environmental Art Festival on the Persian Golf

I also used Hormoz red earth and made new painting on portraits and hands.  Like many other my works these recent painting, show a personal interpretation of the story of the first couple (Adam & Eve).

A couple from Latvia Ieva Usca and Janis Matvejs joined our festival I painted tree of life on their portraits. Ieva (Eve) is an environmental scientist.

The local red earth named "Gelak". This red earth is used to cook "Soragh" which is a traditional food. It consists of organic earth, fish and a kind of lemon or sour orange "Nareng". Usually Soragh is served with bread. Experience shows that the colored earth doesn't affect the body, so we enjoyed using this earth as a medium for art.

Unfortunately, a local company exports this valuable earth and uses it in some industry. Unfortunately, most of the people of Hormoz are poor and have no income and many receive charity from the government. We artists aim to introduce the value of this earth as an art material and we invite all artists across the globe to visit this beautiful island.