Sobre el Artista

RACHID HANBALI was born in 1970 in the ex-Spanish colony of Sidi Ifni, Morocco. He studied at the National School of Fine Arts  in Tétouan, Morocco, and later at the University of  Fine Arts in Granada, Spain.  He has held collective and individual exhibitions in a number of countries including the UK, the USA, Canada, Spain, Morocco and China, and in 2009, at Beijing's International Festival of Contemporary Art he recieved the Creativity Award from the Ministry of Culture of China for his painting 'Moroccan Horsemen Galloping'. In 2014 and 2015 he was honoured to be selected by the prestigious Royal Institute of Oil Painters in London to participate in their Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries  in  London.  He currently lives and works in Nerja, Andalusia, Spain in a country house which he shares with his English wife and their son, painting 'au plein air' and taking inspiration from the natural beauty which surrounds him. He enjoys spending a  part of each year at  home in London. Hanbali´s paintings often  refer to Morocco’s landscapes and its people. In his atmospheric depictions he retains light and colour, expressing an emotional response to the subject and his inner world.