I CRIED A RIVER Painting

Deborah Segun is a multidisciplinary artist based in Lagos, Nigeria. Her works can be described as a mix between cubism and abstraction; She takes a playful, purist approach to her work by focusing on form rather than detail, through the use of different artistic and sometimes unconventional mediums. Her works are mainly figurative with a focus on portraiture. The inspiration behind her works stem from her personal and shared experiences as a woman, as well as observations of any given space she occupies at a time. She tries to capture these experiences through her unique and experimental use of colours and shapes. She exaggerates the figures or displaces them, as she believes it is her own way of confronting her reality. She also likes to isolate shapes from the subjects/objects and put them together to create a new composition.