Laure ghorayeb biography of william

By the end of her life, Laure Ghorayeb had been making art for 83 years. She began drawing in 1940 while at school at the Sœurs Saint-Joseph de l’Apparition in Deir al-Qamar (a town located in Mount Lebanon about 40 kilometres from Beirut). Having grown accustomed to the lack of colour in her textbooks’ illustrations, and with no means to purchase coloured pencils, she always drew in black and white. Her early fidelity to monochrome laid the foundations for her practice and came to be the hallmark of her work. She produced her first serious artworks – charcoal drawings and oil paintings – in 1955, during a stint as a researcher at the Ministry of National Education and Fine Arts. She had been encouraged to pursue art by artist Said Akl (1926-2001), her colleague at the ministry and an early proponent of Hurufiyya (Arabic Lettrism), who influenced the use of Arabic text in her work. A self-trained artist, she came to painting and drawing through her poetry practice. Sh Biography of william shakespeare.