Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Tom Young's paintings, his love affair with Beirut and Lebanon


Delicate — at Gemmayzeh.
the day after

Breakthrough — at Gemmayzeh.
A marvelous story, a brief film of a handsome, young, British-global, painter, Tom Young, who went to Lebanon and fell in love with the country, painted its sumptuous colors and the complexity of living there, simultaneously full of joy and sadness, war and peace, nostalgia for the heyday of fun, comfort, romance, a rich social life and dealing with the uncertain now, loss, poignantly tangled. 

A resident there offered him the use of a neglected, crumbling building, Villa Paradiso. 

Here is his website with an array of beautiful, evocative, emotionally rich paintings, his FaceBook page and an article about the scope of his work in other countries as well.

Tom Young.com







Tom's studio at Villa Paradiso, painting my favorite painting of his, Let the Light In
Let the Light In






beiteddine palace, lebanon

















Gunflowers — at Gemmayzeh.


basta fowka, beirut


life goes on
















missing































sunset, sea of galilee
wall story
Still Spinning (thanks to Barouir Baloumian for the inspiration) — at Gemmayzeh.
studio window, beirut

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