Yamou was born in Casablanca in 1959.
Studying at the Sorbonne, Yamou obtained a DEA in contemporary art in Morocco. At the end of the 1980s, he set up his studio in the Paris suburbs and began his aesthetic adventure.
From his earliest works, nature has always occupied a predominant place, whether in the materials he employs or the subjects he depicts. Yamou creates a pictorial garden whose possibilities he exploits ad infinitum.
The artist cultivates plants in the matter of his paintings, as if to transform the work into a place of life. It's not so much the mastery of the landscape that motivates his approach, as the plunge into detail. Sometimes leafy, sometimes naked, plants lend a quiet strength to Yamou's paintings, and evolve, as if weightless, in her pictorial universe.
In her recent paintings, the artist focuses on the organic world. Petals and corollas pass under the microscope of the artist's eye to reveal their inner riches. Yamou has never been so close to the frontiers between figuration and abstraction.
His work has been included in prestigious collections such as the ONA Foundation (Morocco), the Neuberger Museum of Art (USA), the World Bank (USA), the Ministère des Affaires Étrangères (France) and the Written Art Foundation (Germany).
Yamou lives and works between Paris and Tahannaout.