Aban Etminan
Artist • Art Educator • Founder of Honaremoaser
Aban Etminan is an artist and art educator whose work explores the connection between creativity, visual arts, and childhood learning.
Through painting, illustration, and creative education, she creates meaningful artistic experiences that inspire imagination and self-expression.
Welcome to Aban’s Creative World
Art is a language of imagination, discovery, and self-expression.
Through her artistic practice and educational journey, Aban creates meaningful experiences where creativity and learning come together.
Where Art Meets Childhood
For as long as she can remember, Aban has been deeply connected to art. Painting, photography, ceramics, illustration, and decorative arts have not simply been areas of study or professional practice for her; they have been a way of seeing, exploring, and understanding the world.
Her artistic journey began in childhood. At the age of eleven, while living in the UAE, she received her first recognition as a young painter. Although she initially followed an academic path in mathematics, her deep connection with art eventually led her to pursue formal studies in Painting at the University of Art in Tehran, followed by graduate studies in Painting and Clinical Psychology.
Her interest in the relationship between art and childhood began early in her academic journey. During her undergraduate years, she participated as a research assistant in a university research project exploring visual and performing arts in children’s education and development, with a focus on children from approximately 2 to 12 years old. This experience became an important foundation for her later work with children.
From there, her path moved naturally from research to practice. She began working directly with young children in educational settings, observing their play, creativity and development, and exploring how artistic experiences could become meaningful tools for learning and self-expression.
Since 2008, Aban has worked professionally as a children’s art educator and university art lecturer. In 2010, she founded Honaremoaser, an art institute dedicated to creative education and artistic development.
Over the years, her professional journey has brought together artistic practice, child development, psychology, education and international experience. She has participated in exhibitions, art fairs, workshops, expos and professional trainings internationally, with her own artworks presented in exhibitions in countries including Italy and the United States.
Her educational approach has also been shaped by her training in Waldorf and Montessori education, as well as her more recent international experience in Art-Based English Learning, where art and creative activities are used as a pathway to language development.
Today, her work with children is rooted in one simple belief:
Children do not need to be taught how to make art before they are given the freedom to create. They need to be given the space, materials, time and confidence to discover their own way of seeing.
For Aban, art education is therefore not about producing perfect pictures or training young artists. It is about nurturing imagination, curiosity, emotional expression, confidence, observation and the joy of discovering the world.
After many years of studying, creating, researching and teaching, she continues to bring all of these experiences together in her work with children — creating a space where art becomes a language through which children can explore themselves and the world around them.
Selected Exhibitions & Recognition
Tehran, Iran
Tehran-Iran
EURO EXPO / Italy 2018