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It is the love of African ways of life, the natural environment, extended families and strong communities that my paintings depict.

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The negative impacts and distractions of Western influences.

I enjoy creating layered, intricate and detailed textures, colour relationships, and intricate, intimate details in a piece especially accented in my portraits. To paint is to be alive.

There is natural power in our earthy relationships among people.

My work captures the seasons of life and its passing phases, how they impact us. I believe that art indeed is my first language and I speak it fluently!

Look back to the Motherland to see its future.

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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