Nature is especially important for Lebanese artists because in Lebanon, it is never just a background. It is something you grow up with — mountains that feel almost too close, the sea always nearby, landscapes that carry layers of history within them. But at the same time, it is also something fragile, constantly shifting, and often under pressure.

Artists don’t approach nature in a single way. Some turn nature into something emotional and almost personal. Others work with it physically, using real materials. And some reduce it to patterns and structures, trying to understand how it functions from within. Lebanese artists are constantly rethinking what nature actually is — and what it means to them.

Tagreed Darghouth was born in Saida and works in Beirut. Look at how she paints Lebanese cedars!

Her cedars are never perfectly shaped. They don’t stand still. The branches spread out in uneven directions, built with thick, fast strokes that feel almost impulsive. You can see where the brush pressed harder, where it dragged, where it suddenly stopped.

The greens are never just green. They shift between deep, almost black tones and lighter, colder blues. Sometimes they mix into each other so much that the tree starts losing its clear outline.

The cedar feels almost unstable, but at the same time, monumental. Like a force of nature rather than just a tree. It leans, it spreads, it almost dissolves into the space around it, and yet it still holds its presence. There is something powerful in the way it occupies the canvas, even when its form is breaking apart.

Tamara Haddad uses materials like sand, bark, pebbles, branches — actual elements of nature — and incorporates them into her canvases. So when you look at her work, you are not just seeing a landscape, you are kind of looking at a piece of it.

Her background in architecture also shows. There is a strong sense of structure, layers, surfaces — almost like geological sections of the earth.

A lot of her work focuses on environmental damage and transformation. And when you see the textures up close, it really feels like the land has been scratched, eroded, or exhausted. It is less about beauty and more about what is happening to the planet.

Nabil Nahas is an internationally recognised Lebanese artist whose work has been exhibited widely across major museums and galleries.

His relationship with nature is very specific. It is not about atmosphere or materials, it is more… structural.

He is deeply interested in patterns in nature. You see it in his starfish paintings, in his repeating organic forms, and in his cedar tree series.

And also, you can see it in his iconic Fractal series, which he began in 2005. In these works, he explores the balance between order and chaos. The textured surfaces often resemble a seabed, full of swirling coral-like forms and dense, organic movement, brought to life through vivid colours.