You studied Interior Design for three years at the YWCA College in Beirut, before going on to study painting at the Institut Nationale des Beaux Arts. Was it difficult for you to decide that you wanted to pursue a career in art? Yes, like any teenager who’s trying to find her way and make the biggest decision of her life, figuring out my future was hard. I was a little confused; either I would go for music and opera singing, or go into the fine art school for a painting major. And not to forget, that you never knew what school would accept you. There was a lot of competition.
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What are some of the themes and subjects you express in your art? Are you inspired by a particular style, such as impressionism? Impressionism was the way I took to get to the style I work with today. Paul Cezanne was always the artist that kept me in awe looking at his work. Amazing paintings from “Le Pere de la peinture a l’huile” [the father of oil painting]. I started like anyone else, with still life painting, then landscape – but portraits were, and are, my thing. I like the challenge of drawing and painting human figures. So much to see in there. Coriophora Veil
How important are the landscape and culture of Lebanon in your work?