Ghassan MAHFOUZ, Personalities from Lebanon (Min Loubnan - LBCI):

He was seven years old when he first sketched on one evening, the face of a guest on a paper. That was the great surprise and impression that constituted his first step on the art itinerary that made of him a promising artist leading his way to leadership, so he captured hearts and minds with his creativity.

Ghassan MAHFOUZ was born in 1977 in Lebaa, and then his painting talent has risen with the dream that accompanied him since he was a child. His dream came true and was crystallized on the canvas with paintings and colors, he who was dubbed very early “The Artist”. His teachers advised him to a greater extent to enter the art domain, and he kept on paying massive efforts to present what is new and to deal with colors with professionalism.

MAHFOUZ has created huge frescos and some art studios in addition to a large number of art calendars like: “Our Beautiful Village, and Our Dear South”, which had a tremendous positive resonance in showing the beautiful sites in Lebanon and conveying its dazzling nature on the canvas.

He was known for his beautiful representations on ancient pottery that could link the past to the present and illustrate the relationship between men and the soil, to the point that he became specialized in this field.

Ghassan MAHFOUZ organized more than eighty exhibitions, private and collective, in Lebanon and abroad, and he obtained several awards and prizes. He took part in many symposiums and artistic activities.

He taught the art of painting to many new artists and he was famous for drawing striking portraits, considering them as “auto- challenging” , who painted many presidents and eminent famous personalities and religious chiefs. He executed the Trinity icon and many other paintings for the churches and convents. He is the painter who truly lives the paintbrush and colors, he who draws with oil “the wagon” that resembles him as he once explained, and he adds that he loves the aquarelle for being translucent. Ghassan MAHFOUZ, a young Lebanese painter is glowing in his works that go beyond his young age and is proving that age is measured by his achievements.