Maaloula

Artist

Dimensions

40×50 cm

Medium

Acrylic on Canvas

Year

2023

6,000 AED

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About this artwork

“Maaloula” by Etab Hreib inspired by the ancient Syrian village where houses cling to the mountainside like verses of a forgotten prayer. Hreib captures its sacred stillness and luminous resilience domes in shades of rose, turquoise, and ivory glowing against a crimson sky. The work feels like both remembrance and tribute a portrait of a place where faith endures through color, and where the landscape itself seems to speak in the language of the soul.

About the Artist

Etab Hreib

Etab Hreib’s life has been one of motion, resistance and luminous creation. From the shifting houses of her Syrian childhood, moving from Aleppo to Tartus and finally settling in Damascus, she learned early that home is more than bricks: it is a memory, a colour, a departure.

Her style is expressive-abstract watercolor narrative, that swirl with green vigour, sky-blue liberations, streaks of red rebellion, and deep black grief. Yet the overall palette remains rich, optimistic, full of possibility rather than surrender. She creates simple motifs, a house on a hillside, a tree leaning toward the wind, a window open to dusk, but imbues them with emotional depth and personal geography.

Etab Hreib