Salwa Fallouh

Salwa Fallouh was a Syrian painter and illustrator who started painting professionally at the age of 80. She was born in 1920 in the village of Bassir in Hauran, Kingdom of Syria (now Syria). She married at the age of 20 to Hani Al-Salem, and together they had 9 children. When her children were raised, she began exploring the process of making art. Her work was primarily impressionist landscapes, animals, and still life paintings. Carlos Barona Narbione, of the Cervantes Center in Damascus wrote about her after her first art exhibition: “These are the birds, trees, deer, suns, and flowers that Salwa saw in her childhood.” She died on December 26, 2008 in Syria. She left a legacy of thousands of paintings that reflect her love of nature and life.