Sofia R

I was born in Phoenicia (called Lebanon today). This land of a thousand flavors, a thousand colors... Land so dear to my heart has always accompanied me to dream, create, express myself. I was born there and was abandoned shortly after my birth. Adopted in France, I grew up with many difficulties: a succession of violent shocks!

The suicide of my adoptive mother when I was 13 years old weakened me deeply... My emotions then became intense, with an omnipresent hyper sensitivity! But I am a fighter and art arrived very early in my life; in high school, I followed a literary course with a theater option (my first passion that I will practice for ten years). At the same time I practiced dance for 20 years, I sing and I write.

I am passionate about artistic creation on all the supports that I can transform, that makes me happy, soothes my sufferings and allows me to expel and sublimate the hard past reality!

It is not easy to know where we are going, when we do not know where we come from! The click of painting finally imposed itself; I must create! (I have been painting for 20 years).

In 2012- 2013 I took the Fire Arts (Ceramics) training in Vallauris in the Maritime Alps where I lived. Then in January 2014, a phone call made my life change and I understood at that moment that everything became possible; I left to discover "my Lebanon". I left to discover "my Lebanon", magical moments filled with emotions, with finally the certainty of being recognized as belonging to a country, to a people that has suffered, but that fights and is reborn like me a little stronger each time!

As soon as I returned from Lebanon, my creations were in galleries in Mougins, then Cannes, Vence and Paris. I now live in Brittany. Thank you to art to accompany me because I can express myself, calm myself finally ... EXIST!