Roudaina Fardon is an impressionist artist based in the Middle East, who draws inspiration from her upbringing in Beirut, Lebanon. She pursued her undergraduate studies in fine arts in Beirut before immigrating to California, USA, where she pursued a graduate-level art education. Her work is characterized by her unique play on color contrast and unique perspectives, which aim to provoke a ‘double-take’. While she rarely restricts herself in the pursuit of the subject, she finds those featured in her work from within her own life, and her work always finds some form of connection to her story.
The recent work of Roudaina Fardon focuses on the rich history of her home region, composed of dreamlike portraits of travelers and eye-catching mosaic-style renditions of the world’s most modern city. Her painting technique involves the use of acrylic paints on canvas to create mosaic-inspired landscapes that highlight the beauty of nature. She uses the precise application of geometric shapes, leaving space between each color to give an overall mosaic-like appearance. Her use of light, shadow, intricate details, and vibrant hues brings a fresh perspective to the traditional landscape genre. The geometric shapes are combined to create a larger, unified image, with spaces between the shapes revealing glimpses of the underlying surface. Through her meticulous brushwork and the use of color and form, she creates stunning works that arouse emotion and intrigue.