Healing the Spirit ... An art exhibition with feminine hands, for the artists of Ornina

Tartous-Sana

Paintings painted on wood in oil and water colors and in different artistic styles presented by nineteen plastic artists in the art exhibition organized by the Ornina Artists Group in the hall of the Arab Cultural Center in Tartous over a period of five days, which was titled Healing the Spirit.

The plastic artist, George Chamoun, director of the Ornina studio and a teacher in it, explained in a statement to Sana that the exhibition, which contained 28 paintings titled, was taken from the Dome's Songs Collection by Khair al-Din al-Asadi, pointing out that the exhibition included artistic paintings in realistic, expressive, symbolic and Syriac styles. Various paintings of small size and minimal prices to encourage the culture of acquisition.

In turn, the artist Samaher Dalla, founder of the gathering, pointed out that the exhibition with its title and paintings aims to give joy, hope, love and positive energy everywhere, considering art is a healing for the soul because it reflects the artist's self.

The participating artists considered that the exhibition is a station to spread love and beauty, as said by the French language teacher Hasana Haykal, who studies playing the piano as well, as she presented the idea of ​​the exhibition from her own perspective, expressing in her five paintings of love and representing it with motherhood, roses and music, using water and oil colors.

The English language school, Dimah Ibrahim, chose to embody love in an expressive style through four paintings painted in watercolors, one of which uses Arabic calligraphy, while diversifying her ideas with her other paintings, describing her presence with her colleagues since 2017 as a wonderful experience to confirm the presence of Syrian women in art and to advance everywhere part of Her soul and her love.

Amal Suleiman, a retired commercial science teacher, confirmed that the sale of her seven paintings that she participated in in the exhibition is of great moral value, indicating the presence of people who have a taste for art and beauty, explaining that she chose women, birds and flowers as a symbol of love to include in her paintings.

The housewife, Nour Haykal, will not find anything better than motherhood to express it as an example of pure and sincere love that she embodied in her three paintings using watercolors, indicating that her three children were the first motivation for her to hone her talent for drawing and learn how to use colors and deal with ideas within the Ornina gathering.

Fatima Hussain