Tommy Rizk

My mind and eyes have always been attentive to details that often remain unnoticed and this translates in the level of details of my artistic work. I live in the mountains of North Lebanon and spent a great share of my time in the outdoors, exploring the richness of the nature around me, from trees and plants to birds and wild animals to stones and fossils. I love experimenting with shapes and textures I find around me. I found in mosaic the perfect medium to integrate nature into my art, either as an inspiration and/or as materials. I studied mosaic according to the double reverse or Ravenna method which I relate to because it demands to give its right time to the creation process just as with nature’s own processes. It also provides me with a strong technique as a basis from where I can continue exploring with new materials and my own techniques.

2006 - Specialization in Mosaic artworks under the direction of Marcantonio Raimondi Malerba, Antonine Artistic Institute in collaboration with Centro Internazionale Studi e Insegnamenti mosaico (CISIM) - Lebanon
2003 - 2004 - Graphic Design, Lebanese-European Campus of Technology / Kafaat - Fanar, Lebanon
1997 - Painting & Drawing, Fouad Tomb’s Arts & Renaissance School - Jounieh, Lebanon