ArtDayME: Emirati artist Abdul Qader Al Rais dedicates a masterpiece to the union of the seven Emirates. 

The work is exhibited at Etihad Museum located at 1 Jumeira Road, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Etihad Museum has written in the explanation of this work: "Every brush stroke tells a story of the nation, its lands and its people through a yellow and blue palette of the desert and the sea. The right side pictured here, features the names of the seven Emirates that were unified to make up the UAE as we know it today."

Abdul Qader Al Rais is known for both his abstract oil paintings, which draw on Arabic script and geometric forms, and his more recent landscape watercolours, which reflect his longtime interest in traditional Emirati architecture and nature.

His work has been presented in more than 30 solo exhibitions in the Middle East, Europe and United States as well as many international group exhibitions, including 1980–Today: Exhibitions in the United Arab Emirates, UAE Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale (2015) and Past Forward: Contemporary Art from the Emirates, Meridian International Center and UAE Embassy, Washington, D.C. (2014). His work is also part of the collections of the British Museum, London; Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; Kuwait Museum of Modern Art; Sharjah Art Museum and Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman.