Seated Woman Painting

Nabil Abou Hamad is a British-Lebanese visual artist primarily active as a painter in oil, acrylic and mixed media. He is one of the last surviving members of the 1960s "Artists of the Horseshoe" circle—a gathering of visual artists who frequented the Horseshoe café in Beirut's Hamra street during the city's heyday as the Middle East's hub of free expression, liberal lifestyles and intellectualism. Still active and prolific in output, Nabil's œuvre to date spans six decades of work, fluctuating between periods of experimentation in styles that range from the fauvist, to the primitivist, to the abstract expressionist and their hybrids.