Mohammed JAAMATI

Born in 1961 in Tetouane

Lives and works in Tetouane,

- Professor at the Lycée Hassan II in Tetouan, Inspector of plastic education at the MEN delegation in Tétouan – Larache and Chefchaouen 1990/1994
– Official jury member of the National Institute of Fine Arts of Tétouan
– Founder of the MEN Museum of Artistic and Craft Crafts in Tétouan
- Senior Secondary Education Inspector
– Visiting professor at the Institut Nationale des Beaux Arts.
– Member of the ECUM -Morocco board
- Member of the Association of Spanish Watercolourists.
– Currently living and working in Tétouan.Source:

MOHAMED JAAMATI, is an artist who stands out for the precision and meticulousness with which he creates his paintings.Beyond technical mastery and through the eye, his oil or acrylic paintings invite reflection and dreams; the painter brings forth the freedom of imagination in the midst of strict and rigorous order.Disturbing reality through déjà vu, reversing the sense of vision pre-established, the artist-painter shakes the usual.

The rhythm is figurative is the real passion. The artist expresses through his sensitivity, his vision of a rhythm and passion, immortalized by his palette. Remarkable work both for the expression of its features and the purity of its colors. By his mastery of the model, his movements that project shadows and light. The observer is carried away by the swirl.

Delicate works to the eye, it is by walking through them that serenity and daydreams invade us. This serenity due to the rhythm transposed by the delicacy of colors, by the passion shared between the artist and our looks . Immense sublime moment for the pleasure of all. This particular approach undoubtedly expresses the frenzy of the artist.

This contemporary painter, discovered a passion for painting landscapes and portraits from childhood. It is expressed both in the figurative and in the abstract but with preference for paintings with characters . He multiplies portrait on portrait and in his works we often find a hidden message.

His multiple influences are found in his art where we are disconcerted by the different styles that the painter gives us to see . But behind this artistic profusion of drinking MOHAMMED JAAMATI, (to be remembered from his mouth when he likes to talk about his beginnings in the 60s, that his first spiritual master was always the artist MEKKI MEGHARA) we find all the same a style which has for role, to make us dream about people and different subjects...

Moroccan painter with a solid training in art, he chose to work with oil and acrylic to be part of a contemporary figuration. The style of MOHAMED JAAMATI is absolutely pure, conceals the superfluous and gives his paintings important contrasts. Between soft shadows and brutal clarencies, they establish gently relationships of harmony.

Flat, prisms of colors form a mosaic that invades the canvas and by their refined lines give stability and power to its landscapes.

Mohamed El jerroudi (poet)

Article published on MarocPress.com

The artist’s paintings most often represent landscapes or religious and spiritual buildings painted with passion in watercolour or acrylic. A work that is both poetic and realistic. The painter represents in his paintings an ordinary reality and «déjà vu». Mohammed Jaamati also seeks simplicity and synthesis in his works, which gives them a greater dreamlike and spiritual dimension. To achieve this, the article carries out a detailed work on shadow and light.

It «covers» the illuminated areas as well as the dark ones, thus completely ignoring the detail. Colours also have their importance in Jaamati’s works. He creates his own color palette such as emerald green, vermilion red or brown.

Colours which he calls «coloured greys» because of their reduced saturation. As for the method, the painter begins by drawing sketches with charcoal and then paints by «masses». A technique that consists of painting each of the main surfaces of the painting in several layers, first using transparent colors and then «turning» to darker colors.

Through his paintings, Jaamati wanted above all to give the most importance to poetry. «My art is not just an image, it represents above all a visual poetry and aspires to give hope to the Moroccans», says the artist. His works also pay tribute to nature, source of life and spirituality. Nature that, according to him, is being progressively destroyed by men and deserves to be preserved. “Respect for nature has disappeared.

My art is an original way to raise awareness of environmental protection,' he says. Just like, he tries to awaken the conscience for the preservation of architectural heritage. Karim AGOUMI