Carnival Painting

Internationally acclaimed artist, curator and founder of Beirut Art World NGO, Roula Chreim shares reasons for an ongoing theme that surfaces in her work. Between extensive traveling in her previous career and being displaced after her house was destroyed via war, “home” is a pivotal idea and crucial place that manifests from her psyche and heart in many of her works as well as in her life.
Roula paints her figures, interior scenes and cityscapes with an aesthetic that evokes Symbolism, Abstraction and German Expressionism. Some of here operatic and ballet scenes have bits of Degas in them, perhaps more in subjects matter than style. Her works retain many unique characteristics, such as her preference for abstracted human figures, buildings and compositions while her wonderful palette knife sketches are elegant, sophisticated and usually display a violin or cello, all setting a tonality of mood. Her passion for color is displayed in her artwork along with her abstractions one will find a subtle quality that exudes sensuousness at its core, layered with romantic composure and always a compellingness that exudes passion.
Collectively, her oeuvre is made up of vivid expressionistic paintings that communicate profound feelings to the viewer, whether her medium is on wood, canvas, metal or murals imbued with oils, acrylics or mixed-media.


Roula Chreim 's artworks have been exhibited in distinguished galleries and museums nationally and internationally.



“My art discipline enables sanity to prevail in these tiring times, while it covers a diverse range of both mediums and genres making it hard to catergorize me into one pigeon hole or another. This I would not change as for me it is the essence of the freedom I love in my process…”