The paintings of the international Syrian painter Sarah Shamma as part of a celebration from Rome to Ripon in Britain

Damascus-SANA

The international Syrian painter Sarah Shamma began displaying a set of her paintings depicting Saint Wilfried, founder of Ripon Cathedral, as part of a celebration from Rome to Ripon in Britain.

These paintings were displayed in the cathedral nave with the aim of directing visitors to it, which lies under the Anglo-Saxon floor of the cathedral and is the last remnant of Wilfred Church, which was founded on the site in AD 672 and is the oldest surviving building in any English cathedral.

And the producer of (Art in Churches) Chris Bailey expressed in a statement that Sana received a copy of it, about his happiness for Shamma’s participation in the project and said: We are very fortunate that we succeeded in including the Syrian artist Sarah Shamma in our project. St. Wilfrid, along with his patron, Queen Enfield, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Theodore of Tarsus, in three dramatic panels to be hung in the nave.

He emphasized that this work of Shamma's artwork is amazing and wonderful and will bring Wilfred to life in a way that we have not seen before.

It is noteworthy that the project (from Rome to Ripon) is a partnership between Ripon Cathedral and the Foundation (Art in Churches), noting that the cathedral is located in the English county of Yorkshire and is considered one of the most important archaeological and religious monuments in Britain.

It is noteworthy that Sarah Shamma is an artist, born in Damascus in 1975, a graduate of the Adham Ismail Center for Fine Arts in 1995, a Bachelor of Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Damascus University in 1998, and she has nearly 20 solo exhibitions and 30 group exhibitions.. They were held in many Arab and international capitals.

Shamma has won local, Arab and international awards, and her works are acquired by the Ministry of Culture, the National Museum in Damascus, the British Council and the Spanish Cultural Center. In addition to Syria, her works are distributed in Lebanon, Jordan, the Emirates, Tunisia, Kuwait, Egypt, Spain, Ecuador, Germany, Britain, Austria, France, Canada, Holland, America and Japan.

Mays Al Ani

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