Abdulqader Al Rais is a giant of Arab art, a master of colour and light, with a passion for merging the traditional and the contemporary.
He took Sally Mousa inside his incredible studio, where he keeps an astounding body of work, spanning more than 50 years of paintings.
She spoke to Abdulqader as his first international retrospective is on show at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris as part of the French-Emirati Cultural Dialogue programme for 2018.
He tells her who his biggest inspirations are, what made him come back to painting after a 12-year break, and how discovering Abstract art transformed his work.
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