Description
This painting was painted in 2019 in Baskinta, my village in Lebanon, where I spend summer. Lebanon was facing the beginning of a long crisis, a dark period in which we are still in. As I have been working on nature matters for years, this painting, with a dominant grey palette, is about earth wounds, about dark times our country and the whole world are facing. I use natural materials such as tree barks and sand, to make people feel earth and nature that always prevail over darkness and human actions on Earth.
Artist Biography
Tamara Haddad
Born in Beirut in 1982, Tamara Haddad graduated from Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA) in 2005 with a Master’s Degree in Advertising. She started painting in 2004 as a self-taught painter, while working in advertising. In 2011, she quit advertising to devote herself to painting. Deeply influenced by architecture and photography, being the daughter of Georges Haddad, a pioneer of modern architecture in Lebanon, Tamara Haddad takes inspiration from her series of photos either taken during her trips to Tibet and Nepal, or during her many hikes in Lebanese mountains and abroad. All these images allow her to give landscapes a new dimension in her paintings.
Today her work is focused on physical transformations that earth is enduring nowadays mainly caused by mankind actions. She focuses on the changes that affect the earth landscapes and its geology, showing scars, but at the same time, she insists on revealing the beauty and the variety of colors and textures that Earth owns.
Having a deep concern about environment, using natural materials such as sand, bark, straw, pebble and branches along with oil painting, is part of her process.
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