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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.

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The negative impacts and distractions of Western influences.

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

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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