Painter
Britt Boutros Ghali
Britt was born in 1937 in Svolvaer, Norway. she studied painting and sculpture with Ellen Christensen and Ferdinand Lunde from 1959 to 1962in Oslo, Norway.
Her debut exhibition was at the” Galerie de L’Universite” in Paris in 1965. Britt was a member of the Abstract Expressionist Movement in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s, and she still considers herself a member of that school.
Britt has lived in Egypt for over 30 years, in a rich and colorful environment. She expresses herself through her own bright and brilliant colors, incorporating vestiges of Egyptian culture and her European heritage
In 1996, she was granted the highest Norwegian accolade given to an artist, the ‘ST. Olav Order’.
She has previously shown in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, the United States, Switzerland, Norway, and Egypt. Her paintings are in private and public collections all around the world.