Lena Kelekian
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.