A member of the Moroccan Association of Plastic Arts, self-taught writer and painter, he visited Europe in the 1960s and discovered Renaissance art and the realism of Flemish painting. He was also fascinated by ancient Egyptian art, which he discovered at the Louvre, as well as by contemporary European art, and both were fundamental in the definition and development of his unique and acclaimed style characterized by a combination of mystical elements, disturbing figures and abstract backgrounds. He drastically changed his style in the 1980s, inventing a blue pigment that would become iconic.
