He carried lines, colors, light, and his sensitive brush from his native town in the Beqaa, Yanta, with its pristine mountainous nature, and headed towards the Lady of Capitals, Beirut, after his experience matured. He documented its heritage streets, sculpted its Ottoman and Mamluk arches with his brush, and colored the domes of its mosques and churches with a heritage touch filled with honesty, beauty, and intricate details!
He is the painter and artist Amir Salameh, a son of the town of Yanta in the Rashaya district, from where he set off to study lines and colors, and from its hills, stone houses, and oak trees, he drew inspiration for his works and creations.
The beginning was at his school desk with scribbles in pencil and school-grade colored pencils at the Yanta Public School. Later, at the Manara Public High School, there were rudimentary beginnings, accompanied by the absence of art and painting subjects from the educational curriculum.
As for his formal artistic studies, they began under the guidance of the painter and artist Abdul Rahman Al-Khatib in his town of Majdal Anjar in the eighties. Afterwards, he pursued some studies in Arabic calligraphy and copper engraving under the late artist Ibrahim Al-Zaidani, and in the nineties, he studied in Damascus at the Adham Ismail Center for Fine Arts.
Painter Salameh holds a postgraduate diploma from the Lebanese University with a very good grade, and a Master's in Applied Arts from the University of Alberta in Canada.
He holds a certificate in watercolor painting from the Rainbow Atelier of Dr. Imad Abu Ajram, a two-year specialization certificate from the Haidar Hamoui Center for Fine Arts, and a certificate from the Adham Ismail Center for Fine Arts in Damascus. He has also participated in more than 60 exhibitions in Lebanon and abroad.
