Tamara Haddad

Born in Beirut in 1982, Tamara Haddad graduated from Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts in 2005 with a master’s degree in advertising. She started painting in 2004 while working in advertising and quit in 2011 to devote herself to painting. She is deeply influenced by architecture and photography, and by her father Georges Haddad, a pioneer of modern architecture in Lebanon.

Haddad takes inspiration from her series of photos, taken either during her trips to Tibet and Nepal, or while wandering along the Beirut airport tarmac, the large spaces around the Beirut port and during her many hikes in the Lebanese mountains and abroad. All the images she collects allow her to give landscapes a new dimension in her paintings.

Her work focuses on physical transformations that the earth is undergoing due to the actions of mankind. She focuses on the changes that affect the earth’s landscapes and its geology, showing scars, but at the same time, revealing the beauty and the variety of colors and textures that the earth possesses.

Honoring her deep concern about the environment, she uses natural materials, such as sand, bark, straw, pebbles and branches, along with oil painting as part of her process.