Mahmood Samandarian is a watercolor painter, born in 1963 in Isfahan. He is a graduate of Tehran Faculty of Fine Arts. Since he was a teenager, he has been interested in watercolor painting and has started learning since that time. This artist says: "The works of masters like Yervand and Sambat were very useful for me in this way. Regarding watercolor, it should be said that watercolor technique is one of the most difficult techniques in painting. In this method, the lower the number of fonts on the work, the better its quality. In watercolor, the painter cannot change or destroy anything while painting, so an initial decision and thinking must be completely logical and calculated. Of course, by logical and calculated, I don't mean rejecting feelings in this way, but all these things, which are basically work techniques, are formed in a transformation of the artist's feelings and then they are imprinted on the screen". So far, Samandarian's works have been displayed in more than a hundred domestic and foreign exhibitions. In addition to professional painting and illustration and authoring numerous books, he is active in the field of teaching painting in his private school and also in the Faculty of Fine Arts. So far, he has won many awards, such as the second prize of the Iranian Contemporary Painting Biennale in 1993, the first prize of the Art and Nature Exhibition in 1993, and a special award for the opening of the Palestine Museum in 2007.