In Les Nymphéas (The Nymphs), Amyuni reveals her abstract expressionist tendencies with hints of figuration. A “Nymphea” refers to a type of water lily flower, and is suggestive of Greek mythology’s nymphs – the beautiful supernatural female beings thought to inhabit glades and springs. With her own pictorial language, Amyuni pays tribute to Claude Monet’s famous Nymphéas. The tricolour oil on canvas depicts vivacious blues, greens, and pinks against a black background. Using simplified figuration, thick impasto, and bold colours, Amyuni’s large scale alluring canvas introduces a sharp intervention on the traditional genre of landscape. 

Amyuni was formally trained at the Byam Shaw School of Arts in London, and she later pursued a degree at Columbia University in New York City. After 10 years of living abroad, she returned to her native Lebanon and lived in the beautiful suburban city of Yarzé–– a hill with villas and gardens overlooking Beirut and the Mediterranean Sea, surrounded by a pine forest. Amyuni says, “Yarzé gave me a lot of food for thought and feelings, and gave birth to numerous paintings and drawings.” The Mediterranean light inspires her work, and her subject matter and technique are deeply influenced by her natural surroundings. Her return to Lebanon resulted in a prolific period of developing works and marked an important shift in her career as an artist. Amyuni taught at the Lebanese Academy of Arts (ALBA) and two secondary schools: Louise Wegman and Jesus and Mary.

The artist has notably exhibited in various group and solo shows in Beirut, Kuwait, London and New York. In 1995, the Sursock Museum in Beirut awarded her the first prize in painting on the occasion of the XVIIIth “Salon d’Automne”.