Britt Boutros Ghali
Britt Boutros Ghali is a Norwegian self-taught artist living and working in Egypt who has dedicated more than sixty years to painting, developing an abstract practice rooted in discipline, energy, and transcendence. Working daily in her studio, she describes her process as action painting guided by flow: a state in which thought falls away and the work emerges through an external force. Often painting for up to twelve hours at a time, she sees each canvas as both a sanctuary and a source of vitality.
Born above the Arctic Circle in post-war Norway, Ghali’s early experiences of resilience and the stark beauty of the natural world shaped her sensibility. While her early works were marked by serenity and dreamlike reverie, Ghali’s recent paintings embody a heightened intensity - layered compositions that channel the turbulence of the present moment while still holding open the possibility of transformation.
Since her debut exhibition in Paris in 1962, her work has been exhibited internationally at distinguished Museums and galleries such as Picasso Gallery, Egypt; Kunstner Hus, Norway; Naila Art Gallery, Saudi Arabia; Museé D'Art Contemporain, Morocco, Palazzo Communale Gallery, Italy; Palais del'Unesco, Lebanon; Galerie d'Arc, Geneva, Switzerland; Parlamentarische Gesellschaft, Germany. Ghali’s artworks have been acquired by major public and private collections across the globe including the: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arab Art (Qatar), Hardanger and Voss Museum (Norway), Museum of Modern Art (Egypt), Queen Noor, Museum of Modern Art (Jourdan), Slovak National Museum (Slovakia)
Born above the Arctic Circle in post-war Norway, Ghali’s early experiences of resilience and the stark beauty of the natural world shaped her sensibility. While her early works were marked by serenity and dreamlike reverie, Ghali’s recent paintings embody a heightened intensity - layered compositions that channel the turbulence of the present moment while still holding open the possibility of transformation.
Since her debut exhibition in Paris in 1962, her work has been exhibited internationally at distinguished Museums and galleries such as Picasso Gallery, Egypt; Kunstner Hus, Norway; Naila Art Gallery, Saudi Arabia; Museé D'Art Contemporain, Morocco, Palazzo Communale Gallery, Italy; Palais del'Unesco, Lebanon; Galerie d'Arc, Geneva, Switzerland; Parlamentarische Gesellschaft, Germany. Ghali’s artworks have been acquired by major public and private collections across the globe including the: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arab Art (Qatar), Hardanger and Voss Museum (Norway), Museum of Modern Art (Egypt), Queen Noor, Museum of Modern Art (Jourdan), Slovak National Museum (Slovakia)