Abdullah Hammas was born in Abha in 1953 and educated at the Riyadh Institute of Arts. He taught art for thirty-one years and is one of the seven artists supported by the Al Mansouria Foundation. He is said to be among the first few painters to have pushed the limits of traditional and decorative painting and to have embarked on a quest to link colours and materials to his homeland. The colourful paintings the artist makes are often adapted to the venue in which they are displayed. For example in Riyadh, the paintings are mature and serious in nature and do not venture beyond abstract forms. In Al-Khobar, he has exhibited at the Arab Heritage Gallery using bright colours, clear lines and human forms. Hammas has exhibited in various galleries throughout Saudi Arabia and internationally in Paris, France and Rabat, Morocco. His paintings are housed in public collections in the Middle East, Europe and the United States.