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About Ghazi Toutounji

I was born in 1954 and raised in Lebanon. I attended school at The College Du Sacre-Coeur, Beirut, where I graduated in 1972. After school, I studied at the American University of Beirut and graduated with a bachelor degree in mechanical engineering in 1976. I practiced engineering in various companies in Lebanon and abroad and immigrated to Montreal, Canada, in 1992 with my wife and my first child. I then moved to Mississauga, Ontario, in 1995 and am still living there since.

I started drawing since my childhood, practicing my skills on anything around me: classmates, friends, teachers, environment.

In Lebanon, I attended several workshops by renowned Lebanese artists such as Assaad Renno, Hamawi, Gueragossian and others. After moving to Canada, I pursued additional fine art courses including classical animation at Sheridan College.

My work includes watercolor, oil, pastel, pencil, and ink in addition to pyrography (wood burning), sculpture and computer 3D sculpting.

I participated in a few shows and competitions including:

- Fabriano drawing and painting competition in Lebanon, 1972, where I won third prize

- Group exhibition in Cyprus in 1990

- Lebanon festival in Montreal in 1993