DUBAI: Kristel Bechara remembers how, when she was a child, her father — a surrealist sculptor — would spend hours making art in their home in Lebanon. It was this that first inspired her to pursue art.
Bechara’s father died when she was eighteen, but his influence lingers; particularly his insistence that she find her own artistic voice.
“He never taught me,” she tells Arab News. “He said I could watch him. I couldn’t understand why he wasn’t giving me tips, but now I do the same with my kids. You need to learn the basics, but most art is experimental. My dad had a style of his own; he couldn’t teach that. If he’d taught me that, he would have limited my creativity.”
August 27, 2021
