I paint murals and people. I photograph people off-guard and paint them because I’m fascinated with other’s lives and the allowances and limitations of portraying them through art. I love the heaviness of oil paint and its vivid pigments. I get lost in the slow process of translating the snapshot onto canvas. The results are paintings which show a love of paint and people.
I’ve painted murals in shops, schools, homes, and gardens.
In the past few years I’ve been visiting Ghana. I do charity work there in schools. I’ve painted murals over there in some of the primary schools I’ve visited. Some of my paintings are from my photos of Ghana and my ‘Flow of Water (reused)’ Sculpture is made out of used drinking water bags from Ghana.
The annual Degree Show is a highly anticipated event amongst staff, students, external partners and friends of the School of Art – it provides a platform for the work that the students have spent so long conceiving and producing. The 2023 Degree Show has been realised through an ongoing testing of ideas in public arenas in which the discourse around art practice takes place. This process of realising practice which engages with audiences has over […]