About the Artist
Areej AlQaysi
Areej AlQaysi
Classes/ Commissions/ Paintings
Life is beautiful, full and fun with family -grown son and daughter, a son in law, two cute granddaughters and friends like you!
Areej is a single Mom, a home designer, an art teacher and A Painter. She is an Iraqi-born artist lives and works in VA since 2016.
Areej is RISD educated in painting studies. She has also successfully been granted and completed a painting scholarship from Scottsdale Art School /AZ. Added to that she has managed to learn and enhance her art skills attending great artists classes nationally and internationally.
Areej has also MA degree in English Literature, which has of a great impact on her Art career being exposed to the glory and history of old masters. She moved to many countries since childhood; a journey that influenced her Art practice capturing a variety of subjects and themes in colourful presentations. From the Middle East to the US, Areej has tried to reflect on this path using bright colours through her Artwork.
Areej participated in a number of group exhibitions and art auctions in VA& DC areas and internationally. Her reading and background equipped her Art vision and knowledge about art and the glory of Renaissance times, as well as contemporary art.
Areej creates her artwork from her home studio in VA/USA. She has also been actively involved in pleinair art movement in the DMV area.
Art for Areej is: "The Language that people could understand without speaking".
MEMBERSHIP
American Impressionistic Society- AIS
Iraqi Forum for Arts and Culture
Vienna Arts Society -VAS
Loudoun Sketch Club- LSC
Portrait Society of America
Loudoun Arts Council
AWARDS
Won the Honorary Mention at the "Quick Draw" Competition organised by the Great Falls Art School - May 2025
EDUCATION
2024- Marie Remond- A French Artist Based in Nice South France
2024- Arts of Great Falls School-Jill Banks, VA
2023 -Morning Classes- Dipali Rabadiya, VA
2023- Evening Painting- Arts of Great Falls School-Jill Banks, VA
2023- Scholarship /A Fresh approach to Flowers Painting- Matt Ryder, Scottsdale Artist's School, Arizona
2021-2022 Art Mentoring Program- Kristy Gordon
2020-2021 RISD CE- Painting Studies
2019-2020 Workshops attended with Artists in Northern VA: Tricia Ratliff and Tan Art
2002 MA degree in English Literature- Al-Mustansiriyah University/Bagdad-Iraq -2002
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2018 Tryst Gallery,VA
2019 Dara Global Arts,VA
2020 Loudoun Cares Organisation,VA
2020 Pandemic- Art Impact International, Inc./VA
2020 Endangered Species-Art Impact International, Inc., VA
2021 Child Factor -Art Impact International, Inc.,VA
2021 Earth Day - Little Tree Huggers Pre-school,VA
2021 Femme Champions-Art Impact International,VA
2021 Loudoun Cares Organisation–Fund raising and Art Auction,VA
2021 El-Diwan AL-Iraqi Art Exhibition, VA
2022 Around the World Embassy Tour, Iraqi Embassy, Washington DC
2022 Group Exhibition At Vienna Art Society (VAS), VA
2022 Joint Jordanian- Iraqi Art Exhibition, Amman- Jordan
2022 Loudoun Cares 4th Auction, VA
2022 "Iraqi Selected Colours" Jordanian- Iraqi Art Exhibition, Amman- Jordan
2023 Small Treasures - Loudoun Sketch Club, VA
2023 Loudoun Cares 5th Annual Auction
2023 Group Show- Iraqi Fine Artists Group, Amman/Jordan
2023 Beaux Arts 40th Anniversary, Fresh Paint Fund Raising Group Show, Scottsdale Artist's School-Arizona
2024- Painting Great Falls- Group Show -VA
2024- Solo Shows at Loudoun County Public Libraries: Leesburg/ Middleburg, and Ashburn
2025 Group Show at the Katara International Art Festival in Doha/ Qatar
2026 -Loudoun Sketch Club- Group Show -Oatlands Historic House and Gardens
2026- Paint Annapolis Group Show -Annapolis.MD
CLASSES
Teaching at Loudoun County Public Libraries
Teaching at Fairfax County Public Libraries
Teaching at Prince William Public Libraries
Online classes via Zoom
INTERVIEWS
My interview with Wolfgang and Luke gallery
https://youtu.be/KWXiIsoIsjM?feature=shared
My interview with Radio Washington
https://youtu.be/7xJzmaFhe3c?feature=shared
UTUBE CHANNEL
Areej AlQaysi
Business Owner of "ORCHIDA" A Painting Event Organiser/Art For A Cause
“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary” Pablo Picasso
