Born in Addis Ababa Ethiopia, Yisehak was first inspired by his grand mother, Princess Welete-Israel Seyuom, who as a devout Christian, without any formal art education produced and dedicated spiritual paintings to the church. Since the tender age of seven, Yisehak's education and work remains centered around his faith and artistic talent.

Yisehak's work reflects a strong feeling for the human condition. This may be because of the traumatic experience of being uprooted from his native land and the separation from his parents forced upon him by the 1974 revolution.

Yisehak obtained his Bachelors of Art degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1988. He then attended The Taylor School of Art in Rome. Since graduation, he has exhibited in Paris, New York, Berkeley, and Napa Valley, California. Yisehak's most recent inspiration comes from 14th Century Ethiopian spiritual paintings, which resembles the Byzantine style. He currently resides in northern California.

Artist Statement:
"The way I paint is not realist in the conventional sense. Although it has realistic elements, it conveys matters beyond the reality we see in nature into the spiritual, in the realm of faith. "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. It comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God". The Source of my inspiration is the word of God (the Holy Bible,) and the guiding principle, the creative force is the Spirit of God, Which lives in me by faith. His glorious gift...to God (in Jesus Christ) be all the Glory!"