This floral painter makes you dream of spring in Morocco

Hakim el Amrani is a Dutch-Moroccan self-taught painter graduated from the Willem The Kooning Art Academy and international biophilic designer based in Amsterdam. His love for art began at the age of nine at the Rijksakademie (State Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam), where established artists took him under their wing while his mother worked there as a canteen lady.

Inspired by the power of form and nature, Hakim’s work explores themes of identity and habitat, weaving together elements of the palm tree and the tulip, and the spirit of Marrakesh and Amsterdam, into his colorful abstract paintings.

Through his international studio, Studio NousNous, he creates abstract botanical artworks, large-scale murals, and designs spaces that reconnect people with nature. His work blends art, interiors, public spaces, architecture, and visionary city concepts reminding us, and actively pushing for nature’s place in our daily lives at every spatial scale.

Hakim El Amrani sees nature as a sacred gift. Through his art and design, he reminds us that we are not merely users of the Earth, but its caretakers. Drawing inspiration from his Islamic faith, his Moroccan heritage, and his upbringing in the Netherlands, Hakim captures the beauty of unity within diversity: the many within the one. He weaves natural forms into his paintings and spaces, creating works that gently reconnect people to the healing power of nature.