Nahed Shahine · The exhibition
Hanging the canvases
Painter · Live wedding artist · Photographer · Qatar
Moments, kept in colour.
Faces you love, nights you never want to forget. I paint them on canvas, sometimes live while your guests gather round, and my camera catches the little details of your wedding day. Come in, the lights are on.
01 · ORA by Nana
Faces that hold a whole story, Arabian horses with the wind in their manes, old cities, open sea. Many of these canvases left my easel as gifts: a welcome for newborn twins, a wife's love letter to her husband.
02 · My daughter, 2021
عندما ترسم قلبك بريشتك
Step back and my daughter smiles at you. Step closer and she becomes what love looks like up close: countless small strokes, each one laid down by hand.
03 · Live painting
I bring my easel to your wedding or henna night and paint you live for about three hours, while your guests drift over to watch. Pencil turns into lace and gold, and your night becomes a canvas you keep for life.
04 · Lady in red
Red, gold and a whisper of guitar. Look closely: every stroke of her lifts off the canvas and drifts into the next room, where a wedding is waiting to be painted.
05 · The wedding night
Candles down the aisle, flowers in the arch, and a canvas that fills with the two of you as the evening unfolds. Of everything I paint, this is the night I love most.
The collection · ORA by Nana
A few favourites from my easel. Wander along the wall, then picture your own: a face you love, a place you miss, a gift they will talk about for years.
The guitar is still playing and her skirt has not landed yet.
A veil, a candle, a ring, and a gaze that says everything the veil hides.
Gold at her face, lantern light on the stones of the old souq.
2021
عندما ترسم قلبك بريشتك
من اكبر اللوحات التي رسمتها ١٠٠x١٠٠ سم
Warm brass, a carved arch, and all the time in the world.
اكريلك على كانفا ٩٠*٦٠ سم
Is it the sea becoming a horse, or a horse that remembers the sea?
Tassels swinging, mane in the air: dressed for the festival and ready to dance.
Silver, ochre and night: a song you can almost hear.
Old houses leaning over turquoise water, a blue dome keeping watch.
The citadel gate standing proud under a restless sky.
Full sail into a golden evening, salt in the air.
The strings are humming in every colour at once.
Two hearts, one black and one white, leaning into each other.
Yours next?
Send me a photo and the date you have in mind, and let's paint something that stays in the family.
Order a painting (opens Instagram in a new tab)Or see every canvas in the galleryLive painting · Weddings and henna nights
ليست مجرد رسمة، بل ذكرى تُرسم أمام أعينكم، وتبقى للأبد
While you celebrate, I paint. Your guests wander over with their coffee and watch pencil lines turn into lace, gold and the two of you. By the end of the evening your celebration is a canvas, and it will still be glowing on your wall years from now.
The date, the venue and the occasion: a wedding, an engagement, a henna night or any celebration close to your heart.
A corner with good light, where your guests can gather and watch the canvas come alive.
From the first pencil line to the last touch of gold, painted to the rhythm of your evening.
Your guests in their evening best, sketched on gilt-edged cards: a little keepsake to take home.
Live painting prices
Prices in Qatari riyals.
01
Price on its ownQAR 2,500
02
Price on its ownQAR 2,500
Special offer
01 + 02
TotalQAR 3,500 instead of QAR 5,000
Behind the lens · nahedsh.art
Behind the scenes of a wedding, my camera falls in love with the small things: flowers before the doors open, coffee being poured, the oud, the dress before anyone else sees it. Filmed on iPhone and ready the same night, so you can share it while the music is still playing.
On Instagram
Gold leaf catching the light, a bride appearing stroke by stroke, a canvas that fills with colour while the evening glows. Stay as long as you like, and come say hello on Instagram.
About
I am Nahed, a Lebanese painter who made Qatar home, and Nana is the name behind ORA by Nana. Some afternoons belong to a canvas and my coffee, some evenings to a bride and groom I paint live while their guests celebrate around me, and some days to my camera and the small details nobody else notices. Colour, light, people: that is my life, and I love every part of it.
Let's create together
A wedding you want to remember in colour, a portrait for someone you love, the small moments of your day caught on camera. Send me a message on Instagram with the date, the place and your idea, and I will come back to you with my thoughts.
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