• PARTICIPATING ARTIST

Lena Kelekian

Born in Beirut, Lebanon, an internationally renowned visual artist for her paintings in abstract colourful style, she is also specialised in painting and restoration of icons, frescoes and antique fine artworks and a well-known environmental designer for embellishing cities in cut ceramic mosaics public artworks and monuments. She is a lecturer in Byzantine Art and as a geologist-mineralogist an expert in extracting natural pigments to use in tempera artworks. She is a curator and concept developer of international art exhibitions like the International Flag Art (IFA), International Exhibition of Small Format Art (IESFA), Olympia Fine Arts Association 1st art exhibition of Sarajevo & Banya Luka, UK flag art exhibition & others. She is the organiser of Art Therapy workshops for traumatised children of war. She is also the president of four cultural/artistic associations including the OFAA Olympia Fine Arts Association & founder of MEADOWS, FAM representative of Femme Art Mediterranean aegis UNESCO and Acc. Greci Marino, National & Middle East president for Arts, Culture and Sciences, Italy. Her artworks are in permanent display in 16 museums around the world.