Nkrumah Painting

Nafeti /nʌfe'ti/ is a visual artist based in Toronto, Canada. With her art she explores the concept of freedom and moving away from outdated rules, frames and limitations. Her interest in visual art emerged in childhood, although for the longest time she never seriously engaged with art. Instead, she explored law and economics as more “down to earth” subjects. But the creative spark was still there, waiting to be discovered. Initially, Nafeti turned to photography. A year photography course and a 10-year photography practice gave her a strong background in composition, light and color, but she always felt that she wanted more freedom in creating art and expressing herself. In 2016-2018 she studied at fine art school, which helped her to develop her own painting style and form thematic preferences. With that new background, the process of art work creation started to flow easily and naturally. Nafeti’s preferred medium is oil due to its color depth and saturation, wide color palette and flexibility. She works mainly in expressionist style, which allows to convey emotions in the most transparent way with the help of color, texture and composition. She draws her inspiration from nature with its inexhaustible beauty and diversity. Along with that she is deeply concerned about people’s irresponsible use of the biosphere. She translates all these emotions and concerns to viewers through her paintings, be it a still life with a modest daisy bouquet, an abstract work depicting wild fire in Australian woods or a Salvador Dali portrait. Nafeti has successfully participated in a number of art contests and exhibitions and been featured in media, her paintings are presented in art collections in Canada and the USA. During all these times, Nafeti does not forget about her other passion - writing poems for kids. A number of her books for kids have already been published on paper and the internet, including such books as “From Three to Thirteen”, "Alphabet Book", "Little Stories", Animal Stories", "Sea Stories" and "Granny's Calendar", for which she had written 200 poems and drawn more than 150 graphic illustrations. Nafeti hopes her arts bring more positivity into this complicated world. The artist is featured by Saatchi Art in a collection. You can see how Nafeti paints here: https://youtu.be/Odl4OPycB3s Publication of her artwork in ArtTreasury 2021 Collector's Annual: https://youtu.