After 35 years of teaching art, I returned to painting, not as an instructor, but as a learner again. For decades, the classroom shaped how I saw art: through patience, repetition, and the quiet joy of watching others find their form. But my return to colour is also a return after profound loss. In the violence of the genocide in Gaza, everything I had created before, decades of work, sketches, and memories, was burned. My studio, once a home for stories, was reduced to ashes and rubble. What survived was not the art, but the need to make it.

In this new chapter, I approach the canvas with the same humility, but also with a different kind of urgency, searching for a balance between memory and light, between grief and possibility. My works today are mostly acrylic on canvas, exploring colour, texture, and emotion as languages that don’t require translation. 

Samir Lubbad
Prints or artworks available upon request
📩 samirlubbad@gmail.com