Survivors Painting

•Agbaka Oryiman is a self taught contemporary (VISIONARY) multidisciplinary artist and a freelance photographer skilled in painting and drawing, born and living in Nigeria, who loves to explore different styles and mediums of art but traditionally a ballpoint pen artist who uses lines, shapes and symbols to create a fusion between real and abstract worlds where they can coexist in harmony. He harnesses his creativity and skills in various forms of ART in order to pursue his artistic journey, He uses the ballpoint pen and ink specifically because they are tools from ancient times used in telling stories and writings and truthfully. In his practice as an artist over the years, He believes art is a means of expression and loves to not just draw but also paint in different styles and techniques, Agbaka loves to explore abstracts he says “I don’t want to be confined into one practice or style of art as this makes me feel as though I’m a prisoner, I believe art has set me free hence I create even more expressively exploring different styles and techniques of art” His ideas are revealed to him intuitively and tries to focus on society, class, politics and people generally. •He’s inspired by past and present artist and because of his similar artistic journey, was nicknamed “Picasso” he is to a large extent inspired by Pablo Picasso, Caravaggio, Michelle Angelo, leornado da vinci, Jean michel basquiat. His famous quote thus: “Art is the mirror that reflects my soul”