Lina Rizk was born in 1975 in the Syrian capital, Damascus (the oldest town in the world). Her parents discovered her hobby when she was a little girl. They encouraged her to express her skills. After she finished her school education, she found the way to her dreams and entered the Fine Art Faculty in Damascus and graduated in 1996. At the same time, she got more skills from a specialized art institute (Adham Ismaeel) and was graduated in 1995.

She travelled to many countries to enrich her art knowledge, and take a look at many civilizations such as Pharaonic in Egypt, Romanian in Italy, Andalusian in Spain, and Greek civilization, where she had the occasion to obtain mixed art culture. Lina has experimented with several mediums, such as pastels, and watercolour, but oils tend to be her most preferred. She tried using many techniques to rich her art, such as the recycled materials to create reliefs pictures, which was the technique she used in her first exhibition she released immediately after graduating, in the Russian Culture Centre in Damascus.

She then worked several years with international advertising agencies as a graphic designer. After a strong event took place suddenly, it was the war that forced millions of Syrians to leave their beautiful safe country to escape from death and starvation. On other hand, millions of citizens decided to stay and protect their loved country from terrorists who gathered from all over the world.

Everyone serviced his country in his field and Lina was one of those who decided to defend her country by her art, she wanted to send a message to the whole world that Syria is still alive, and Syrians can create art in spite of the disastrous conditions, and she could release to successful exhibitions during the war, she has held several individual exhibitions inside and outside Syria, and she participated in several group exhibitions.

Lina used to draw natural, animals, portraits, but her most preferred were the faces, because she find the real emotions in them, and she excelled in mixed between the faces and the colours of the people.

She is interested in humanitarian issues and she expressed that in a lot of her pictures, in her most preferred medium oil on canvas. An association of plastic artists was established in 2017 and was called by the Association of Candles of Peace, which is the president of the association. And then organized several group exhibitions inside and outside Syria.

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