Rashid Al Khalifa

b. 1952

Rashid Al Khalifa was born in Bahrain in 1952. He began painting at the age of 16 and had his first solo exhibition at the Dilmun Hotel, Bahrain (1970). He travelled to the UK in 1972 where he attended the Brighton and Hastings Art College in Sussex and trained in Arts and Design. Back in Bahrain in 1978, he took his cues from European Impressionist masters. He was preoccupied with painting landscapes that exemplified the beautiful luminosity and mysterious spatial effects of the desert.