Abstract Painting

I am a writer and painter; left brained through and through. I was born to a Palestinian refugee father and a Lebanese/Turkish mother in Kuwait. I abhor injustice and hypocrisy. And I am forever dumbfounded at the frequency of both in our world. I am a published poet and author. Since October 2015, I have set aside my writing and focused almost exclusively on painting and have produced over 250 paintings and other mixed media pieces. I continue to paint daily. I'm a bit of a hermit. If I could paint and not think of life and my obligations, I would be happy in my little bubble surrounded by my animals. But I live on planet earth and need to be social. I do like people and I am not anti-social but our human race is hell bent on its march toward oblivion. My work is varied. My colors are often bold and contrasting. In some of my pieces, there is a level of discordance and turbulence – much like the world we live in. In other pieces, like my abstract faces, they are intended to be humorous – almost poking fun at our existence as humans and the folly that is humanity. Still, in most of my pieces, there is an element of hope. For hope...