Femi Ikotun

My art work explores the struggle we face daily as human beings, in this manner I am able to capture continues Battle we fight within our minds; and in the way we show it on our face expression.

This notion inspired me to capture different face expressions relating to the struggles we face as human beings, they are the struggles we feel so ashamed to share with most people but as an artist my primary objective is to capture this expression on white paper with graphite pencil and charcoal.
The purpose of drawing this face expression on paper is to help an individual to speak out in the season of their struggle.

With over 20 years of experience as an artist with the use of different materials. FEMI IKOTUN was born 12th April 1991 in the city of LAGOS, NIGERIA, where he first discovered his talent at the age of 9. He later moved to the UK to continue his education and studied FOUNDATION IN ART & DESIGN, A 3D design course that covers ARCHITECTURE, INTERIOR DESIGN and FINE ART with a Diploma, and other series of DESIGN COURSES from Interior Design Institute AFRICA, with a CERTIFICATE in interior design/interior decoration, (IDI) - an online Education Programmers CANADA; where he obtained DIPLOMA in Interior Design. He later a...

- Barachel Secondary School, Ikeja Nigeria (2004-2005)
-Kings Deal Secondary School, South London UK (2005)
_ Milton Keynes College UK, (2007-2011)
- Atlantic International University, USA (2020)

- Russia Takeda Art Help at Moscow, (2020)
- Greece Athens Open Art, November (2020)
- Spain Virtual Art Exhibition, November (2020)
- Greece Athens Open Art, June- July (2021)