Art is humanity's most powerful creation where imagination is unlimited

In 2011, Ahmad returned home to the US after nearly three years serving in the Department of Defense in Iraq, with a major back injury. After enduring multiple surgeries, Ahmad has rekindled his love and passion for the arts through his paintings. His international travels and upbringing in Beirut, Lebanon during its own bloody civil war has exposed Ahmad to unimaginable suffering, devastation, and loss. Yet through all these experiences, Ahmad maintains an unbridled sense of hope and optimism for better days, largely evident in the expression of his work. Ahmad's paintings reflect the human condition of a full range of emotion captured by acrylics and India ink, oil as well as watercolors on a variety of mediums ranging from canvases, wood panels, watercolor paper, and vintage book pages. The influence of his days at the prestigious Institute of Art in Lebanon where he studied Art and Interior Architecture remains strong and unmistakable. Having spent over twenty years as a Graphics Artist in Los Angeles, California, Ahmad's talent and distinctiveness transcends barriers and movement while inspiring thought, provocation and appreciation.

Artist Statement:

I am constantly inspired by my surroundings, my family, my local and global communities. My experiences, from a range of utter devastation, pain, suffering, to joy, peace and content, supply an insatiable stimulus of creativity and imagination. An abundance of emotion is yet to be depleted.

 I have a passion for human Emotions, black and white as well as bold colors, I experiment with anything from markers, Indian ink to watercolors, acrylic and oil. Although I love to paint the human body, I also love architectural landscapes as well as oceans and boats