Collage & Mixed Media

Collage and mixed media speak to the complexities and layered history of a region I was born into. As an immigrant, I am still haunted by the Middle-East and the scars of war. I research and record, eager to reconstruct my stratified identity: highlighting the painful and preserving the beautiful.

The work is a mix of multi-cultural expressions bathed in mediterranean colors. Acrylic, gouache, charcoal, pen and ink, visit with each other. Ripped, sliced, and cut paper are glued down and painted over. I work from memory, photographs, readings, and imagination. Uncensored personal experience mixed with regional events inform the meditative flow of an intuitive practice.

***(all images are copy righted and cannot be reproduced without the artist's permission)

WORKS 2024-2025

“The earth is closing in on us,

Pushing us through the last passage,

And we tear off our limbs to pass through….

Where should we go after the last frontiers?

Where should the birds fly after the last sky?”

Mahmoud Darwish - 1995

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WORKS 2017 -2023

All images: © Fadia Jawdat

Imagine 12" x 20" Found & painted paper (sold) (Copy)

Imagine 12" x 20" Found & painted paper (sold)

Day Dream 12" x 12" Painted and found paper (Copy)

Day Dream 12" x 12" Painted and found paper

Ephemera 5.5” x 7.5” Found & painted paper (Copy)

Ephemera 5.5” x 7.5” Found & painted paper

Crooked Times 9” x 9” found paper on board (Copy)

Crooked Times 9” x 9” found paper on board

Colliding Worlds 6" x 6" Found & painted paper (Copy)

Colliding Worlds 6" x 6" Found & painted paper on board

Waiting Room 8.5” x 8.5” Paper mixed media (sold) (Copy)

Waiting Room 8.5” x 8.5” Paper mixed media (sold)

Inter-Sections 16” x 24” acrylic & collage (Copy)

Inter-Sections 16” x 24” acrylic & collage

Homeland Denied 15" x 20" Gouache and painted paper (Copy)

Homeland Denied 15" x 20" Gouache and painted paper

Deadlock 14” x 19” acrylic & found paper (Copy)

Deadlock 14” x 19” acrylic & found paper on board

Phoenix Rising, 9‘ x 7” Paper, paint, Tetrapak (Copy)

Phoenix Rising, 9‘ x 7” Paper, paint, Tetrapak

Reflection 9” x 11” Found & painted paper (Copy)

Reflection 9” x 11” Found & painted paper

We Are Family 8.75” x 8.75” paper collage (Copy)

We Are Family 8.75” x 8.75” paper collage

Over And Out 10”x10” Ink, fabric & paper (Copy)

Over And Out 10”x10” Ink, fabric & paper

Sidewalk 9” x 12” gouache & paper collage (Copy)

Sidewalk 9” x 12” gouache & paper collage

Premonition 7” x 9” found paper collage (Copy)

Premonition 7” x 9” found paper collage

Where Oh Where... 10” x 20” Acrylic, paper & debris (Copy)

Where Oh Where... 10” x 20” Acrylic, paper & debris

Detail (Friends) (Copy)

Detail (Friends)

Red Palms 9” x 7” Acrylic & mixed paper (Copy)

Red Palms 9” x 7” Acrylic & mixed paper

Early Memory 9”x 9” Mixed paper & acrylic. (Copy)

Early Memory 9”x 9” Mixed paper & acrylic.

Two Palms 8”x 8” Acrylic, ink & paper (Copy)

Two Palms 8”x 8” Acrylic, ink & paper

Rubble Rubble 4” x 6” Paint & paper on canvas board (Copy)

Rubble Rubble 4” x 6” Paint & paper on canvas board

Rolling With The Punches 7’ x 5” Gouache, paper collage (Copy)

Rolling With The Punches 7’ x 5” Gouache, paper collage

Downward Spiral, 12" x 16", mixed media (Copy)

Downward Spiral, 12" x 16", mixed media

From Damascus To Aleppo 11" x 15" Acrylic, mixed papers on canvas (Copy)

From Damascus To Aleppo 11" x 15" Acrylic, mixed papers on canvas

Circle of Loss 11.5" x 17.5" mixed media on paper (Copy)

Circle of Loss 11.5" x 17.5" mixed media on paper

Falling Sky 10" x 12" mixed media on paper (SOLD) (Copy)

Falling Sky 10" x 12" mixed media on paper (SOLD)

Thus Spoke Rumi 12" x 16", Ink, wash and paper collage (Copy)

Thus Spoke Rumi 12" x 16", Ink, wash and paper collage

The Beyond 14" x 18" Mixed media (Copy)

The Beyond 14" x 18" Mixed media

Lemons 12” x 12” Acrylic & paper (Copy)

Lemons 12” x 12” Acrylic & paper

Palms 12” x 9” collage & mixed media (Copy)

Palms 12” x 9” collage & mixed media

Summer In The City 9.5” x 12” masking tape & paper (Copy)

Summer In The City 9.5” x 12” masking tape & paper

A Pair of Pears 5" x 6.5" paper collage (Copy)

A Pair of Pears 5" x 6.5" paper collage

Tea & Roses 9" x 6" gouache painted paper collage (Copy)

Tea & Roses 9" x 6" gouache painted paper collage

Urban Picnic 5" x 8" paper collage (Copy)

Urban Picnic 5" x 8" paper collage

Table Setting 12” x 12” Acrylic, gouache & paper (Copy)

Table Setting 12” x 12” Acrylic, gouache & paper

Gone Fishing (Copy)

Gone Fishing