$4,400
Oil, acrylic, branches, leaves, sand on wood panel
113 x 90 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Tanit
This painting describes an autumn landscape in Lebanon. I saw this landscape during a hike trip in Dhour el Choueir. The colors of the trees were bright and vibrant. This is the only beauty remaining in Lebanon: the nature, the Lebanese landscapes, from the mountains to the sea. Despite the invasive construction projects that destroyed a large portion of the Lebanese nature, we still have a few hidden magical places, untouched by man.
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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Location: Zürich, Switzerland
