Sweida (ST): Seventy artworks with wood burning technique were presented by Raydan El Sehnawi in an exhibition currently on display at the Arab Cultural Center in Shahba.
Sehnawi collects topics based on man and nature, with paintings carrying messages that highlight wisdom, prudence and contradiction in human life and at the same time calls for spreading the values of love, peace, goodness and tolerance.
In an interview, Sehnawi said that the exhibition shows the true feeling of a person through artistic work, especially the technique of burning, which depends on patience, accuracy and follow-up, and through working with it gives self-confidence and a sense of stability and peace with oneself.
According to artist Khaled Al-Rafie, Sehnawi was able, through his technique of work, shadow, light and drawing scales, to reach the level of purposeful plastic art with his works, with diversification of techniques, as he added to wood burning the technique of engraving as well as burning in large areas, and this is something new in itself.
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