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Seda Baghdasarian is a visualist — painter, photographer, set designer — whose life vision is to advocate the beauty of the world through art and education. Her quest is to bring healing and learning to all mankind by expressing her vision of the human condition and by capturing the true essence of the physical and spiritual world we all inhabit and share. Seda is an active philanthropist who travels the world using her artwork and energy to help disadvantaged populations, including her own people in Armenia.

Seda was born to Armenian parents in Teheran, Iran. From the moment that she could hold a pencil or brush in her hand she loved to draw and paint. At age 11, she was sent abroad to United Kingdom, where she attended London Metropolitan University's College of Furniture and Interior Design, and graduated with BA honors in Architectural and Interior design. After moving to United States in 1982, she began a 20-year career as an architectural and interior designer. In 1989 she relocated to Los Angeles and began to pursue large-scale conceptual and themed entertainment design work, for various Hollywood studios.

For the past eight years, Seda has found her passion in the art and discipline of painting. She studied with award-winning artist and filmmaker Arthur Bjorn Egeli, who apprenticed color with American master impressionist Henry Hensche. Egeli became a significant influence on her developing style. Recently in her travels to her native Armenia, she has been apprenticing under great Russian impressionist, Maestro Atayan, in Yerevan. She is a self-taught photographer who has visited and photographed some of the world’s most sacred places. She has extensively studied the Andean energy healing practices as well as the spiritual teachings of many other cultures.

Seda resides with her husband and children in Los Angeles, California; painting and photographing her journey with nature.