Artist from Taiz beats his circumstances by working during day and drawing at night

The young artist Hussein Al-Badiji loves drawing and plastic art, however, he does not have time throughout the day to draw or view the work of local and worldwide artists because he works in selling tomato paste or the Yemeni Zhoug from early morning until evening, then at night, he holds his brush and colors to create breathtaking art paintings.

The paintings of the young artist include portraits of people, Yemeni sites, the condition of the country amid the war, and paintings that express his ideas, feelings, and psychological disorder. Hussein Al-Badiji attended Taiz’s Youth Creativity Institute for Fine Arts, which helped him improve his creative skills.

Al-Budiji is one of roughly a hundred Yemeni plastic artists that participated in the Fine Art Gallary held by the Color Forum in Taiz, the cultural capital of Yemen, which has been dominated by the Houthi for around six years.

The gallery aims to reawake art in Yemen, which is going through a fierce war that has overshadowed artistic and cultural expressions and it features dozens of pieces by Yemeni artists from several governorates as well as many works by Arab artists.