HRH Prince Khalid Al-Faisal greeting pupils from one of the Painting & Patronage Summer Schools Programmes held in 2000.

The Wilberforce Primary School workshop was held in London as part of the 2010 - 2011 UK Painting & Patornage Programme.

Participants of the Drawing Together Summer Schools Programme.

State Banquet held in honour of Painting & Patronage by the Portuguese Foreign Minister in Lisbon.

The 2nd Painting & Patronage exhibition was held in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia in 2001.

The 3rd Painting & Patronage exhibition held at the National Palace of Sintra.

HRH The Prince of Wales with the children following their performance of Akanidi and the Colourful Stones.

Art classes held in Europe included displays of the process of lithography.

The Portuguese Minister of Culture officially visited Saudi Arabia as part of the Painting & Patronage Programme held in 2007.

HRH Prince Khalid Al-Faisal with the pupils from the King Fahad Academy in London who participated in a Painting & Patronage Summer School.

Painting & Patrnoage lecture held in Riyadh in 2007 in the presence of the Portuguese Minister of Culture in Riyadh.

A participant of the Drawing Together Summer Schools Programme - 2000.

The principal aim and activity of the initiative is to build valuable bridges of cultural, artistic and educational understanding between Saudi Arabia, the Arab world and the wider international community. It does this through its core activities of organising exhibitions, summer schools, community outreach programmes and post graduate scholarship programmes.

Through high profile events held throughout Saudi Arabia and in partner countries, Painting & Patronage aims to promote the teaching of the visual arts and to establish a higher and deeper level of appreciation and understanding of each other's distinct and diverse cultures and traditions.

Encouraging young people’s creative abilities and the exchange of cultural ideas is central to our ethos. We aim to provide young people with a valuable outlet to express their culture and aspirations and through harnessing this artistic energy, we believe it will provide an important foundation stone for a peaceful society.