Urban Sunrise Painting

I aim to build a more inclusive world, changing stereotypes, and giving a voice to the voiceless. Born in Ghana 1990, I began as a portrait artist right after High school to sustain my craft and in 2012 I became a studio artists for Samsung Ghana. I then turned to making figurative abstract paintings in acrylic on Canvas, I developed a distinctive pointillist style and blending technique that exudes a realistic and dimensional quality and was included in the Paint Sculpt annual jury exhibition at Takoradi Technical University, Ghana, 2015. The painting technique evolved through my personal experience of having a tradition animist priest as a father and a Christian mother sharing the same bed peacefully which is an example of two like-poles meeting as the media in Ghana has influenced many Ghanaians to demonize the indigenous traditional practices and is gradually fading away. After some observations and education I came to understand how important it is to preserve the heritage and great knowledge behind these practices which led this exploration of bringing them inside my painting. I also notice how we are separating from nature due to unnatural way of life causing unnatural disease psychological diseases, behavioral pattern, health habits. Wearing dreadlocks has exposed me to hidden tragedies one wouldn’t believe they exist as it’s subjected to people with mental illness, drug addiction, or violence. The use of simmering spots of colours in my paintings is just to show how beautiful people with differences, culture, race, can coexist in a society. Adowa being one of the first to exhibit highlights the Asante culture as is where I was born and race. Most of my colleagues gave up the dream to become artists and focused on pursuing something else in other to survive as the government funding for arts and culture stays within the tourism board and music. I turned myself into an entrepreneur to keep me going finding ways to sell my art and at the same time exploring different mediums. I had my first camera to document my paintings as I saw how important it was to have documentations as an artist with little knowledge in photography I was finding it difficult to film my works I wanted.