Crossroads Painting

Born in London, England in 1975, Eric returned to Ghana, West Africa with his parents at an early age, where he grew up and nurtured his natural artistic talents from the onset. He excelled in art and won artistic awards both at school and national levels. He returned to the UK in his early twenties and pursued his first degree in Mechanical engineering and later followed up with his Masters degree in Advanced Mechanical Design engineering. All this while he never lost sight of his artistic talent and exhibited on numerous occasions at university group art exhibitions at Brunel University, London and other internationally recognized ones like Pintar Rapido. His works are highly influenced by the relationship man has with his environment and captures activities of people and places that bring an emotional connection to the viewer. He works mainly in Acrylic with palette knife and brilliantly achieves 3D effects with his impasto technique. He is currently a Director at The Creative Collective art gallery in Ashford, Kent and shows the bulk of this paintings there as well as Saatchi Online.