Georges Ward

Georges Ward, born in Zaragoza (Spain) in 1971 to a Lebanese father and Spanish mother, started studying the arts of drawing and painting at a very early age.

His inspiration derives primarily from mythology and nature, where entomology plays an important role.

From a young age he is very influenced by the Near East art, due to his many trips to these lands, especially the one-year stay in Syria. The smells of spices, damasks… everything plays an important role in his laborious painting.

In 1985 he was awarded first prize in a contest held by the Diputación General de Aragón (The Aragonese Regional Government), and, during that same year, began to gain regular exposure at art exhibitions.

After completing his studies at the Escuela de Artes de Zaragoza, his enthusiasm for investigation led him to become immersed in numerous pictorical movements, such as Realism or Surrealism.

In several of his trips to London (United Kingdom) he visits the National Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts where he is mesmerized by the Victorian painting, in particular by Pre-Raphaelite authors like John William Waterhouse, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Dante Gabriel Rossetti among others. After visiting the Louvre Museum and the Orsay Museum in Paris (France) he is enthralled by the symbolists, painters like Jules Joseph Lefebvre, William-Adolphe Bouguereau…

On a visit to Ghent (Belgium) his f...

17 INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS (from 1990)
2017 Spirits of the jungle, Palacio Montcada, Fraga (Spain) · 2016 Georges Ward. A tribute to Martin Johnson Heade, Palacio de Montemuzo, Saragossa (Spain) · 2015 Memories, Centro Cultural del Matadero, Huesca (Spain) · 2014 Connection, Palacio de Villahermosa, Huesca (Spain) · 2013 Life System, Sala CAI Luzán, Saragossa (Spain) · 2012-13 Life, Sala Municipal de Exposiciones de Can Jeroni, Sant Josep, Ibiza (Spain) · 2011 Landscapes, Galería Bullit de Blau, Ibiza (Spain) · 2010 Paraísos de Aragón, Sala CAI Barbasán, Saragossa (Spain) · 2009-10 Georges Ward, Sala de Exposiciones del Centro Cultural Ibercaja, Guadalajara (Spain) · 2009 Rincones de vida, Palacio de la Audiencia, Soria (Spain) · Paraísos, Galería Pepe Rebollo, Saragossa (Spain) · 2007 Sala Artemark, Saragossa (Spain) · 2004-05 Galería de arte Gaudí, Madrid (Spain) · 2004 Metamorfosis, Sala Julio Antonio, Saragossa (Spain) · 2002 Georges Ward, Sala Ángel San Vicente, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Saragossa (Spain) · 2000 Georges Ward: Aliens, Sala Le Thema, Pau, France · 1990 Georges Ward, Escuela de Artes Aplicadas y Oficios Artísticos · Saragossa (Spain).
56 GROUP EXHIBITIONS (from 1985)
2020 Coleccionismo, Galería A del Arte...