Nivine Totayo
The Paintress of Lebanese Charm
Painting LIFE in Colours & Ray of Lights
Nivine Totayo is unique. Ofcourse every artist is in fact unique, but right now, writing and thinking about Nivine I am writing about the entire Lebanese way of life, survival, hope, love, courage, brave at heart, wild at heart nation of beautiful people searching for peace and normality.
Nivine Totayo is a contemporary artist in love with life, her country, Fairouz and Frida Kahlo. Is a Paintress gifted with huge talent and dedication to fine arts, emotional, passionate, touched by a certain type of craziness but beautifully in love with arts as a message of peace, hope and freedom.
Lebanon is a country with huge cultural heritage, lebanese people are maybe the most fanciest and charming people worldwide.
From Khalil Gubran's poems to Fairouz enchanting lyrics, from the top of the mountains to the blue of the sea and the whole landscape of magnificent beauty, from all these together, Nivine Totayo is taking her natural resources of artistic influences .
She paints her own dreams, ghosts, shadows, creating her own bridge of lights searching for her own path in to the life journey.
I consider Nivine a marvelous artist. A courageous artist. A wild artist. It is difficult to create and give birth to paintings middle of a country fighting with a hard situation.
But at the end, what else is more powerful, more motivating than this strong feeling of furious talent escaping, exploring, flamboyantly the unknown Universe of the future?
Nivine Totayo's paintings are huge, colorful, ambitious, brilliant, speaking a new artistic
language. Nivine makes ART as DESIRE.
ART as LIFE. ART as HEART BEAT. Nothing is much more emotional than a woman's wish and will to fight for her own dreams.
Nivine is a Dreamer with a strong heart. Leaving Beirut behind her, hidden in a charming village, between the nature's freshness and fruitful landscape, here, middle of her own Cosmos, we can find the amazing Paintress Nivine Totayo, surrounded by her huge painted walls, ready to fight with all her Demons and Djinns, happy or sad, smiling or crying, but always determined to achieve her heart's wish : Spiritual Freedom.
« Art is my conversation with myself. I am painting for myself and for all of you hoping to understand each other and to understand the World as a place of beauty & peace. I'm painting while I'm talking to myself and you. My paintings are my words. My colours are my feelings. If you love my paintings than you love me. ART is LOVE! ».
Monica Mergiu
ROYAL ARTS VISIONS: Nivine Totayo