Category: Painting
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“Each artist has their own style and their own rituals, with the showroom being an integral part of their life. My experience with Orient Gallery over these many years is one of a second home, and home means love, trust and comfort”. Hilda Hiary Born in Amman in 1969, Hilda Hiary graduated from the University…
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Born in 1991, Aya Abu Ghazaleh is a Visual Artist and Art Therapist, with a BA in Visual Arts and a Professional Diploma in Art Therapy from The University of Jordan, erasmus+ programme. Her work interest explores the intersection of nature and memory, family archives, sustainability, and the use of digital tools. She believes that…
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Creative Designer and Artist adept at teaching contemporary and traditional art with extensive knowledge with over 12 years of experience. Dedicated to detailed lesson plans and monitoring of individual student progress in an innovative workshop setting. Participated in numerous exhibitions in several countries and won several distinctions and awards for her work. Was one of…
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Zaina El-Said was born in Amman, Jordan in 1978 of Circassian origin from the North Caucasus, currently based in Jordan. She completed her higher education in 2001 from the American Intercontinental University in London. Between travels and missions between Europe, America and Russia, it wasn’t until 2010 that Zaina settled back in Amman and took…
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Rania Abulhasan is a Kuwaiti mixed media painter and illustrator. Her artwork is strongly influenced by her experience in fashion and product design: she emphasizes life and movement, using shapes and colors to express her ideas and communicate her message. Her soft delicate work brings a sense of calm and serenity to the viewer. Professionally…
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Razan AlSarraf (she/ her) is a visual artist, curator and educator based between Kuwait and Los Angeles. Through painting, drawing, video and sound, she reflects on the interactions of people with land and landscape. She received a BFA in Fine Arts with honors from the School of Visual Arts in New York and an MFA…
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Tamara Al Samerraei (b. 1977, Kuwait) is a painter who lives and works in Beirut. She received a BA in Fine Arts from the Lebanese American University in Beirut in 2002 and completed the inaugural year of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan (2011-2012), Beirut. Her solo exhibitions include Promise You Made, Marfa’ Projects,…
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Working as a traditional artist with watercolor and ink, Zahra creates work that reflects her cultural roots in Kuwait as well as her life now in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She loves poetry and independent cinema and how quiet and mysterious the night is. She is deeply fond of the sea. Her debut picture book, Where…
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Born in 1972, Annie Kurkdjian had to endure sixteen years of civil war in her native Beirut. Her childhood was marked by the noise of bombs, terror, permanent insecurity and the inconsistency of ordinary things. As an Armenian, she already held out the traumatism of the Armenian Genocide through the history of her grandmother. At…
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Audrée Anid is an artist, curator, and writer. Audrée was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan to Lebanese immigrant parents and was raised in New York City. She holds a BA from Wesleyan University in Connecticut and an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University in New York. Her visual art practice spans photography, painting, and printmaking;…
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A multidisciplinary Lebanese‐Armenian architect and visual artist, currently based in the vibrant city of London. Her artistic journey is a fusion of two diverse worlds, combining the precision of architecture with the freedom of visual art. Her canvas is a unique space where bold, radiant colors come together to capture the vibrancy that resides within…
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Dzovig Arnelian was born on March 6, 1996 in Beirut, Lebanon, into a family of musicians. Although she spent her first years listening to music, it was painting that caught her attention, and thus from the age of 13 she started to express herself through art. She has enrolled in the Lebanese University, where she…
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Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Ghada Jamal started painting in the early 80s and continued her studies at Beirut University College. She immigrated to the United States of America and earned a Master degree in Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting from CSULB in 1990. lived in California till her return to Lebanon in 2002. Over…
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Ghada Zoghbi is a Lebanese artist, born in Shmestar in 1980. At 18,she moved to Beirut to enroll in art teachers’ college, and in 2010,she earned a degree in Fine Art from the Lebanese University. Her first solo show, “Regimes of the Personal”, took place in 2016, at Artspace Hamra Gallery, Beirut where she presented…
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Haibat Balaa Bawab is a Lebanese artist mainly known for her collage artworks. Haibat Balaa weaves narratives of Beirut and its people in her collages and in her oil paintings. Born in the city and having lived in it all of her life, the day-to-day scenes have had an effect on her and were translated…