Artist Ramzia Al-Gazzar turns the walls of her school into an art gallery

Homs, (ST) – The simple rural environment in the village of Kfar Laha, where she was born, had a great impact on the artworks of the plastic artist Ramzia Al-Jazzar. Her artwork depicts everything beautiful there, including colors, flowers, birds and childhood, turning the walls of the primary school, where she teaches , into an exhibition of her works, defying  the events that her village in Homs countryside had suffered from – over seven years of war.

About her artistic experience, the artist Ramzia explained in an interview with SANA that the love of drawing was her passion since childhood, and her mother, who is  a simple rural woman, was good at it, so she encouraged her and refined her talent, which began with simple tools based on a pencil and sand or clay sculpture. She embodied figures of birds and fruits and made village paintings that tell of the giving of the land and the farmers.

Plastic art remained the artist’s obsession. Her art was refined when she completed her studies at the Institute of Teacher Training, specializing in drawing, where she began to draw, sculpt, and design models of the ruins of Palmyra and other landmarks.

The Baath Vanguards Organization was the most prominent sponsor of her work .Through exhibitions she participated with in a number of governorates, including the city of Deir Ez-Zor, where she lived for a long time before the war.

The fifty-year-old artist clarifies that what helped her to move forward in art was the encouragement of those around her who admired her artistic creativity as a female in a village where women depend on simple rural jobs.

Today, the Martyr Ibrahim Al-Ali School embraces dozens of works by the artist Ramzia, as the school halls, corridors and walls have been turned into an art galleryhosting works of clay and cork that embodies historical monuments, models and paintings in oil colors about women, fields, flowers, and others.

School manager, Abdel Salam Al-Mustafa thanked the artist and described her as a distinguished person,  who was able to convey the message of art to future generations through works that will remain a shining beacon guiding us through the path of life and giving us hope that roses will grow in all circumstances, even if they are in a barren desert.

Amal Farhat