Qasr al-Masmak at Dusk: 2003 - 155cm x 127cm

This painting is of Riyadh as it would have looked when it was still a walled city early in the Twentieth Century.

The five towers silhouetted against the sky form the distinctive outline of the Masmak Fort which was captured in a daring attack by 'Abd al-'Aziz Ibn Saud, the founder of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in 1902 when he was still only in his early twenties.

The Masmak Fort is today a museum in the bustling centre of modern Riyadh.

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