ORAZBEK YESSENBAYEV, born in 1960 in Kyzylorda, lives in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Graphic artist and painter. Graduated from the Almaty Theater and Art Institute (1993). His artistic style is close to the traditional realism. Converting his subconscious images into visual form he uses more imagination than careful planning, works spontaneously, directly on canvas, no sketches. Such spontaneity requires his artist’s skill. In recent years, the painter has turned to the genre of graphics, experimenting with the author technique of ‘ball pen on silk fabric’. Yessenbayev first international recognition. is a thinking artist with a sense of humor and unique ability of observation and accurate depicting of the environment. Exhibiting within the Confederation of unions of the artists of the fifteen CIS countries was his first international recognition, March, 2016