I’m a Visual Artist with a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Fine Arts and Design from the Margaret Trowel School of Industrial fine arts and design. I am currently pursuing a career as a mainstream art studio practitioner and an industrial design thinker. Inspired by social issues and an advocate for social change, I specialise in Contemporary art as most of my creations are realistic yet abstracted images that represent our everyday lives because they contain feelings and emotions that resonate with the viewers. Creating a visual culture that speaks of possibilities that society finds disturbing drives my creations.
Within the space of frames, I try to build a world that is undeniably separate from the one we live in. as an artist, I am fascinated by any artistic medium that pulls the viewer out of a logical and common world and places them within a space that is more alive. When I use frames of any shape, I hope that the viewer will forget that they are looking at portraits of children of Color and instead see an alternate reality that mixes drawing and painterly qualities to make surreal images.
It is my goal as an artist to make not only beautiful works but also create a visual culture that speaks of possibilities that the society finds disturbing, Inspired by social issues such as inter-ethnic and interfaith conflict and mould it into something that suggests people living together in peace and dialogue as a means to address their indifferences and promote social change.
My works are meant to be read and analysed. Experimentation and self-belief are abundant in my works, for what makes an intricate story, if not visuals that represent one thing but stand for another? I explore realism and abstract by blending two different media that seem impossible to blend, Charcoal dust and Oil paint; my intent is to create realistic yet abstracted images that represent life because they contain feelings and emotions that resonate with the viewers.
Merging different media in drawing and painterly styles to make art that is a means to an end, and also to move beyond the realm of drawing and instead make paintings and alternate styles of art by visually representing the stories in my society through this style, It is this painterly quality that I emulate, such as using charcoal on canvas and blend it with oil paint, until I achieve an abstracted realistic image which I think gives my work a unique touch.
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