Jessy Tabet Artwork

Lebanon in every Shade

"Art is a path to freedom and joy.

With each brushstroke, I embark on an emotional journey, aiming straight for the hearts."

- Jessy Tabet

The Artist

I believe art is a quiet form of alchemy — it connects, unravels, and stirs what words cannot touch. Every painting begins as a spark: a fleeting memory, a forgotten song, a moment suspended in time — asking to be seen, to be felt.

My process is not calculated; it is a surrender. A conversation without language between myself and the canvas — guided by instinct, silences, and small revelations. When the dialogue fades, I know the work is complete.

I paint in the spaces between what is seen and what is felt — between abstraction and form, between memory and forgetting. Acrylics, textures, fragments of color — layered with brushes, knives, and quiet gestures — these are the bones of my work. Bold contrasts, restless textures, and unexpected hues give shape to my language.

The Story

I was born in Beirut’s Gemmayzé — where every stone holds a story, and creativity hums beneath the city's worn facades. In our home, art was not decoration — it was necessity. I sketched my teachers on the worn wood of my school desk, tracing faces before I could name what I wasì seeking.

That search led me to the Faculty of Fine Arts and Architecture at the Lebanese University, where I studied the discipline behind the mystery.

Music is my other pulse — a constant undercurrent that moves my hand, shapes my rhythm, and sometimes pulls me behind the decks at Nostalgie Liban, where I still play.

Each painting begins quietly — with an emotion, a fragment of memory, a shadow, a melody. It lingers, stirs, insists — until I let it speak. The process is never planned. It unfolds — through instinct, through stillness, through the language of color and form — like a story only the canvas will remember.