Dr. Sami Almarzoogi

Dr. Sami Al Marzoogi (b.1945, Saudi Arabia) is a self-taught artist with a background in Anesthesiology who started pursuing art vigorously in the mid-1980s when he returned to his birth country following a more than a decade-long stay in Germany. While over the years Al Marzoogi continued building a successful career in Medicine, starting in 1986, he dived each time deeper into his creative practice and produced a cohesive body of paintings and drawings that are linked together by the artist's intuitive exploration of colour and figurative and abstract forms. Nowadays in his seventies, Al Marzoogi, who resides in the city of Jeddah with his wife of many years, remains active and for the first time has agreed to share his prolific oeuvre with the whole world.