"I am Bijan Bahadori form the Kashkoli tribe of the Qashqai.

I became interested in painting in my early youth. I have not followed any particular style or method of painting. I have spent most of my life among the Qashqai tribal and nomadic people, and I am naturally familiar with their lifestyle, customs and traditions. And since I am a Qashqai myself, I decided to paint the customs and traditions of my own tribe, including wedding customs, celebrations, the Nouruz (New Year) ceremony, hunting, the migration of the tribe, and their camps in the summer and winter areas. I also paint historical local battles, and many other issues.

My paintings have been shown in the cities of Shiraz, Tehran, Isfahan, Ahwaz, Shahr-e Kurd of the Bakhtiyari and a few other small cities. Outside my country of Iran, I have had shows in London and in Istanbul. In America, some 80 slides of my paintings of the life of the nomadic tribal people were shown at Harvard University."

Mr. Bijan Bahadori Kashkoli paints mainly in water color. He also worked for the Office of the Tribal-Nomadic Education of Fars, now retired. He now, mostly, lives in Shiraz.