Abdel Basit El-Khatim (1942-2020) was born in Omdurman, across the Nile from Khartoum. He studied art at the College of Fine and Applied Arts in Khartoum (previously the School of Design, Gordon Memorial College). He taught art in the same college for about two decades. In the late 1960s he joined the Khartoum School movement, developing a unique technique of applying colors on glued blocks of carved wood, combined in non-symmetrical forms. Portraits, Arabic calligraphy, African masks, tropical plants and palms, are the signs generally articulated in his reliefs and paintings. He exhibited in Europe, USA, Arab Gulf countries. Abdel Basit El-Khatim died in 2020.
