Jamal Bassiouni is a young and emerging visual artist and painter from Alexandria, Egypt. His brightly colored acrylic paintings reference themes from nature and history, turning them into an intricate visual web. As an artist, he explores our relationship with nature and ourselves, creating vivid paintings that are at once symbolic and deeply personal. Bassiouni’s ideas for his portraits are initially inspired by events and people in his own life. Working in a spontaneous, reactive manner, his compositions and subject matter often change during the painting process as he allows his