Under the patronage and encouragement of the Minister of Culture, Judge Muhammad Al-Murtada, the “National Library” hosted Leila Hoteit, the youngest 15-year-old Lebanese painter, and an exhibition of her paintings was attended by H.E. Ms Ann Dismorr Ambassador of Sweden; H.E. Radu Cătălin Mardare Ambassador of Romania; H. E Boyan Belev, Ambassador of Bulgaria, Mrs. Chloe El Hokayem representative of the German Embassy, Mr. İbrahim Furkan Özdemir representative of the Turkish Embassy in addition to social, cultural and media figures.
The party started with the cake cutting, then everyone moved to see Layla’s paintings, who explained her work in all of her drawings. Leila was keen to hold her first exhibition in Lebanon, which kept her heart attached to it despite moving to live in Germany with her family years ago. Her exhibition included 18 paintings through which she expresses, as usual, her ideas through which she seeks to communicate with others, so that this exhibition would be an opportunity for people to see through her eyes without focusing on a particular angle in it.
Layla is inspired by everything that surrounds her of beauty, faces and feelings, relying on various painting techniques that she is keen to diversify in each new painting to introduce different new techniques, knowing that the completion of some of her paintings took about a hundred hours, due to the message she wants to convey from through it. Layla devotes all the time needed for each painting to express in the best possible way her thoughts, or a message. Layla prepared for the painting for a year before she completed it in order to convey her ideas through it.
Layla developed her talent in the first stages in one of the institutes with a Russian artist who was keen to unleash her imagination by letting her paint freely without restrictions, after he saw her talent in this field, which contributed to her development and prominence, especially when she was nine years old.
The parents noticed more and more the maturity that Layla had reached in the field of drawing during the period of the epidemic, as she used to spend hours drawing. When it came time for Layla to move to secondary school, the parents chose a school where she majored in drawing and art mainly because it was the focus of her interest. Before that, her teachers had always admired her achievements in the art class, until in 2021 she participated in the first drawing exhibition with her teacher, who chose two of her paintings, and this was her first serious step in the world of art.