About

Rachid Benmaach is an abstract painter whose practice is rooted in process, intuition, and sustained attention to the painted surface. He works without predetermined imagery, allowing each painting to evolve through layering, interruption, and response.

Alongside his studio practice, Benmaach has worked extensively with architectural surfaces, completing large-scale mural and decorative commissions across Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. His projects include the royal palace of Prince Al Rachid in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (1994), and the palace of Prince Salman in Tangier, Morocco, as well as villas and restaurants in Spain and Ireland. These experiences continue to inform his understanding of scale, structure, and spatial rhythm.

In his paintings, Benmaach translates this material knowledge into abstraction. Gesture and correction remain active within the work, and colour is used to shape movement, tension, and balance across the surface. Rather than representation, his paintings focus on presence—holding traces of time, decision, and accumulated action.

Each work is resolved through refinement and reduction, concluding when the surface reaches a state of clarity and necessity.