Welcome to my website Chababeek.

Since I consider everything I create as a window into my creativity; Chababeek, which is Arabic for Windows, is the name I chose for my website.

My name is Nabil Abed and I am a Lebanese-American artist who has spent the last fifty years of my life in creativity.

My journey began at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio. In 1980 I graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts. Upon graduation I returned to the Middle East, where I would spend the next twenty years creating art and teaching English at the local school.

At first I concentrated on Painting, experimenting with different media on a variety of supports and achieving different effects over the years.

I found that mixing water-based paints with oil-based paints on smooth, non-absorbent surfaces, like glass, Formica, achieved surprising and pleasing results.

  

After extensive work with paint on glass, it was a natural continuation for my creative expression to begin working with leaded glass. In 1993 I opened my stained glass studio in Lebanon.

 

In 1999, I went back to the United States where I settled in Los Angelos and where I continued to explore different creative venues (Photomontage, Ode to Corrugated Cardboard Series and Pastels on Paper).

In 2010, I returned to The Lebanon where I am settled in a quaint village overlooking the Mediterranean Sea and where I continue to produce artwork in Stained Glass and anything that might come my way.

My stained glass pieces & various artwork continue to be installed and exhibited regularly, with many pieces held in private collections across the Lebanon, Australia, Nigeria and the United States.

For any information about me or my work, please feel free to contact me via details on my Instagram.