Iran Lawrence, is a recipient of the University of Delaware Presidential Citation for outstanding achievement for exhibiting a great promise in her professional and public service activities. She thrives on a cornucopia of skills and know-how acquired since childhood from many masters around the world.

She was already an accomplished artist when she entered the University of Delaware and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 1979.

           She later earned a Master of Science degree in Interior Design from Drexel University followed by a full     Master of Fine Art scholarship to Temple University, Tyler School of Art.

Her evocative abstract paintings convey an illusive interplay of glowing color fields emanating warmth, beauty and calm. As a widely published and exhibited multi-disciplined artist, her life embodies a cosmopolitan flair deeply rooted within the wealth of her Persian heritage and further refined through the spirit and the genius of the West.