Born in Cape Coast Ghana, Isshaq Ismail graduated with a major in painting from the GHANATTA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, Accra Ghana in 2012. Isshaq is known as a smart and hardworking student by his lecturers and peers. Working mainly in acrylic, watercolour, charcoal, pastel etc, his art is based on imaginations, Emotions and Personal Experience. Isshaq describes his style of working as semi-abstract, he creates images from his own imagination and sometimes from pictures.