Kadisha Valley, Lebanon. Giclee fine art print.
Original oil painting of the Kadisha Valley in Northern Lebanon. This gorge is the historical home of the Maronite Church, one of the few "non-Roman" catholic churches recognized by the Vatican. It has many monasteries, churches, caves and shrines, and is the birthplace of Kahlil Gibran and neighbourhood of St. Charbel Makhlouf. Historically, it was a thoroughfare both for Bedouin traders and 12th Century Christian crusaders. The scenery is stunning, the people welcoming, and the food memorable.
This painting is based on a photo looking out from the town of Hadath, possibly with Gibran's hometown of Bcharre in the distance, and the residence of the Maronite Patriarch in the foreground overlooking the gorge. The smear of dark green at top left is the famous Cedars of Lebanon forest (also known as the "Cedars of God"). Locals, sadly, say the entire mountainside used to be covered in them, now there are only around three hundred left, the rest having been used for building or export.
The diagonal composition and the shadowed drop into the gorge at left make for a dramatic piece.
Giclee fine art print from original artwork July 2022. Original artwork oil on MDF 60cm x 40cm / 24” x 16”
Original oil painting of the Kadisha Valley in Northern Lebanon. This gorge is the historical home of the Maronite Church, one of the few "non-Roman" catholic churches recognized by the Vatican. It has many monasteries, churches, caves and shrines, and is the birthplace of Kahlil Gibran and neighbourhood of St. Charbel Makhlouf. Historically, it was a thoroughfare both for Bedouin traders and 12th Century Christian crusaders. The scenery is stunning, the people welcoming, and the food memorable.
This painting is based on a photo looking out from the town of Hadath, possibly with Gibran's hometown of Bcharre in the distance, and the residence of the Maronite Patriarch in the foreground overlooking the gorge. The smear of dark green at top left is the famous Cedars of Lebanon forest (also known as the "Cedars of God"). Locals, sadly, say the entire mountainside used to be covered in them, now there are only around three hundred left, the rest having been used for building or export.
The diagonal composition and the shadowed drop into the gorge at left make for a dramatic piece.
Giclee fine art print from original artwork July 2022. Original artwork oil on MDF 60cm x 40cm / 24” x 16”
Original oil painting of the Kadisha Valley in Northern Lebanon. This gorge is the historical home of the Maronite Church, one of the few "non-Roman" catholic churches recognized by the Vatican. It has many monasteries, churches, caves and shrines, and is the birthplace of Kahlil Gibran and neighbourhood of St. Charbel Makhlouf. Historically, it was a thoroughfare both for Bedouin traders and 12th Century Christian crusaders. The scenery is stunning, the people welcoming, and the food memorable.
This painting is based on a photo looking out from the town of Hadath, possibly with Gibran's hometown of Bcharre in the distance, and the residence of the Maronite Patriarch in the foreground overlooking the gorge. The smear of dark green at top left is the famous Cedars of Lebanon forest (also known as the "Cedars of God"). Locals, sadly, say the entire mountainside used to be covered in them, now there are only around three hundred left, the rest having been used for building or export.
The diagonal composition and the shadowed drop into the gorge at left make for a dramatic piece.
Giclee fine art print from original artwork July 2022. Original artwork oil on MDF 60cm x 40cm / 24” x 16”
Prints are scaled to various standard US frame sizes, e.g. 10x8, 14x11, 20x16, 28x20, and 36x24 (all inches). Square print sizes are 12x12, 16x16, 20x20, 24x24, 28x28, 32x32, and 36x36 (all inches). The print itself is smaller than this to include a border of 1 to 2 inches depending on the print size. When the original is an odd proportion, we fill the frame with the image until the first border is touched. In other words, you might have wider vertical or horizontal borders. When the horizontal borders are wider, we might move the image up a little so that the lower one is wider than the upper, this is a popular setting.
All of my prints are professionally rendered to archival standards on 310gm, 100% cotton paper from Germany, with a gently textured surface. This paper is free of optical brightening agents (OBAs). They are printed in the latest generation Epson Ultrachrome archival pigment inks. This is the ink-set that started the pigment print revolution and twenty years on continues to be the leader in terms of lightfastness, colour gamut and D-max. I inspect each print personally to ensure print quality. Each print is titled, signed and dated by me, and will be packed in glassine paper and cardboard tubing for sizes 36x24 to 20x16, or glassine with cardboard protection for the smaller sizes 14x11 and 10x8.