I left a career in cancer research to raise a family.  During that time, I rediscovered my childhood passion, and became committed to the academic, personal, and professional pursuit of art.  I work predominantly in collage and mixed media, adhering carefully selected collage materials to my surfaces to create works with specific expressive qualities.  I paint complex forms, shapes and lines in bold colors to express my emotions and thoughts, as well as to convey my aesthetic sense.  In my development as an artist, I have tried on a most basic level to plant the spark of life within the created forms.  It is my hope that this spark will provoke inquiry into the realms of emotion and intellect. 

Born in Azerbaijan, Iran, and educated in England, since 1970 Jaleh Etemad has resided in the United States.  In 1986, she received a Fine Arts Degree from California State University Northridge.  Since 1993, her work has been widely exhibited in Bay Area galleries as well as in Hawaii and New Mexico.  She has been the recipient of several awards and she has exhibited internationally in Paris, France, Stockholm, Sweden and in an on-line show in Beijing, China.  She is published in "International Women Artists,"vol.1, 1997, and vol.2, 2001.  Presently she resides with her family in Marin County in Northern California.