(1912 – 2011)

Of Lebanese origin and nourished by the resplendence of our fiery sun, our starry skies and our landscapes full of light, Blanche Lohéac Ammoun left at a very early age to encounter the Occident. And there, in this sensitive spirit, was the union of the poetry of the Orient and the thought of refined French culture.

Attractive and easy to approach, her painting reveals itself in all its magic detail. Before the actual subject: of a sketch, the notes she takes of nature in themselves alone reveal a very acute and intense personality. Moved by the internal rhythms that animate her painting, she penetrates the canvas as she throws herself into a poem where the words clash and jangle before being ordered into sweet music.

Blanche Lohéac Ammoun is within everything she does, not superficially by some projection of her physical image but much more profoundly there. One might say that having seized in nature something of its first quivering movement; she is herself what she displays before our eyes. She invites us to a mystical ascension which immediately places her work on a very high aesthetic and spiritual place that at the same time excludes all the facility of either expressionism or the abstract.

Entirely characteristic of her talent, these paintings are feasts of light, of mobility and spontaneous freshness that are ceaselessly renewed. This very free and very personal treatment seems to suit her temperament, finding in it an ideal means of expression.

Biography by Nicole Malhamé Harfouche
Source: Onefineart.com