Mona Almurr is a self-taught Lebanese artist. She paints in acrylic on canvas from her studio in Harissa, Keserwan, and her work moves between abstraction and impression.
Painting came to her around 2020, after years of handmade crafts and clothing. She taught herself through experiment and study until a language of her own emerged: colour chosen for the feeling of each work, and surfaces that range from minimal to heavily textured, built with brush, palette knife and pouring.
Her subjects are memory, motherhood, relationships, stillness and change. Figures, fragments of faces, the sea and the landscape appear in the paintings without becoming their subject.
I don’t only paint what I see. I paint what I feel lies beneath it. Every painting carries a story for me, but I don’t want that story to limit the person looking at it. I want someone to stand in front of the work and find their own feeling in it.
Original works are available directly from the studio and ship internationally. A limited number of commissions are taken each year; a commission can begin with a memory, a place or a story of your own.
White flowers stand up from the surface in a long row, with grey weather behind them and a band of gold at the horizon. They are all about the same height, like people waiting. The sky behind them has not decided what it is doing.
Original acrylic on canvas, signed, with a certificate of authenticity. Ships internationally.