Yousef Balat

Yousef Balat is an imagist. Illustrating life, both real and imagined. Throughout his life, story has been and remains key in his intellectual, emotional and artistic life and he is exploring the historical gamut of visual story telling from the nuances of portraiture to the grandiose epic of histor…

I am an imagist. Illustrating life, both real and imagined. Within my work I hold to the importance of narrative through the image as the ancients did before me. Beyond that, I paint for knowledge of self and of humanity – the quality of being human, subject to its weaknesses, imperfections, and…