MOUNA REBEIZ

Mouna Rebeiz is a Lebanese-Canadian painter based in London. Shegrew up surrounded by musicians, painters and poets, who influencedher painting.Fascinated by the multiple facets of the human being and the humanpsyche, she studied psychology at the Sorbonne and at Saint JosephUniversity in Beirut.She travelled extensively, and then in 1995 met Alix de la Source, alecturer at the Louvre specialising in 18th-century painting, who taughther about the techniques of the great masters. She perfected hermastery of patinas in the Renaissance courses, and studied withAbraham Pincas, a painter and teacher at ENSBA Paris, and withMohamed El Rawas, a Lebanese painter and engraver teaching at thefine arts school in Beirut.In her works, both figurative and abstract, Mouna Rebeiz captures theenergy. of life itself, and the life of woman, expressed at its simplest, as auniversal crucible of emotions. Her great sculptures, like revisited totems,are set to the rhythms of present time in the playfulness of space.