Eyas Jaafar
Syrian artist and animation director. Paintings that move between silence and color, human figure, memory, and the quiet search for peace.
A Practice Across Mediums
Eyas works across watercolor, oil, acrylic, pastel, ink, and graphite, each medium a different voice in his visual language. His paintings seek calm within complexity, tracing the dialogue between light, texture, and memory.
Trained in visual communications in Damascus, he later directed and storyboarded animation while exhibiting paintings across Syria, Lebanon, Türkiye, Germany, and Italy. Line, figure, and lived experience remain central to his work today.
Foundations
Born in Syria (1965). Faculty of Fine Arts, Damascus University (1983–1987), top cohort in Visual Communications. Graduation project reimagined the Epic of Gilgamesh across book and poster, drawing, typography, and narrative fused.
The Moving Line
Through the ’90s–2000s, Eyas worked in animation and visual storytelling, storyboards, character design, and direction (ToonSpace/PowerSpace, Tiger Production, KSA & Syria). Gesture, timing, and composition from animation fuel his painting.
Painting the Human Condition
Current practice centers the human figure, form, tension, and the search for peace. Across watercolor, oil, acrylic, pastel, ink, and pencil, his works invite quiet attention and sustained looking.
Exhibitions & Highlights
Selected education, shows, and professional milestones.
1983–1987
Damascus University, Faculty of Fine Arts - Visual Communications (top cohort). Graduation project on Gilgamesh. Syria.
1988
Autumn Exhibition, National Museum, Damascus.
1989–1990
International Comics Festival (Angoulême), France; multiple participations.
2007–2010
Opened private studio, Damascus. Exhibited new works in Artooz/Jdeidet Artouz and Al-Rabwah.
2013–2018
Group shows in Beirut (Eyes on the Levant); exhibitions with Syrian artists in Istanbul & Ankara (Atyaf/Spaces, Sham Association).
2019
Participations in Saarland (Germany) and Italy; solo sketch show “Let’s Coexist”, Kadıköy Park, Istanbul.
2020–2022
Solo show “Disorder”; ongoing practice in storyboard and fine art.
1991–2017
Storyboard & animation direction for TV/campaigns (Syria & KSA; ToonSpace/PowerSpace, Tiger Production).
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