Artist Biography
Joseph Abou Khalil
Joseph Maurice Abou Khalil is a self-taught Lebanese French watercolor artist based in Paris. He excels in the use of color arrangement and composition. He has been drawing ever since he could hold a pencil and has not put it down since.
He specializes in amazing landscape watercolor paintings exploring nature and its shimmering light and capturing fleeting moments of every day’s life.
A lover of colors, he fervently pursues new ways to group them in conversation with one another, leaving one-of-a-kind constellations in his wake. He explores unlimited chromatic and tonal scales; his palette is innovative, vibrant and complex. He expertly blends light and shades to create depths and contrasts in his paintings.
The artist showcases an extensive mastery of color theory, innate sense of rhythm, and compositional elements to each of his pieces. His art is a visual poetry bursting forth with relentless energetic expression. He has developed his own visual vocabulary along with an inimitable style.
With utmost proficiency, he invites us to view the world as a magical, dynamic, and invigorating panorama. Through his work, we experience our universe with a new expansive and compelling perspective.
Joseph has held multiple solo exhibitions in Lebanon and he presented a solo exhibition “Impressions” in Abu Dhabi Digital District in April 2024.
He also exhibited collectively at Art Generation in Paris, and in Beirut at ESCAPE Gallery, Mojo Gallery, Zoha Nasif La Maison des Artistes and Rebirth Beirut.
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