Old Damascus
| Artist | |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 50×70 cm |
| Medium | Mixed media on canvas |
| Year | 2010 |
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About this artwork
“Old Damascus” by Etab Hreib is a mixed-media collage on canvas that feels like walking through the heart of memory itself. Torn paper, paint, and texture come together to rebuild the city’s spirit weathered arches, sunlit windows, and walls that seem to hum with life. Hreib’s Damascus is not a place frozen in time; it breathes, layered with stories and scents jasmine climbing over stone, the echo of footsteps through courtyards, the warmth of a door left open. The orange and blue tones evoke both resilience and tenderness, a city that carries its history not as weight but as rhythm.
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About the Artist
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.
