Despite studying anatomy at university, I feel it is important to continue studying human anatomy as it relates to figurative art. No matter how advanced you are, you can never get enough practice. I try to draw from life every day while mentally relating anatomical structures to what I am drawing. I used a photo […]
My little nephew is four years old and a little character as can be seen from this pose. He was posing in a new T-shirt I bought him from Ibiza.
This is another water colour drawing using Faber-Castell water colour pencils of Jay walking on the beach on the last day of the holiday. The drawing took around 10 minutes in my A6 sketch pad.
In August 2013, my two besties and I went to Ibiza for a crazy girls holiday. This tiny (A6) water colour drawing was just me reminiscing on some photos on my phone. I drew straight from my phone into my little A6 sketchbook using Faber-Castell water colour pencils and voila. It took around 10 […]
Aissata Pinto Da Costa is an artist and former run way model. Born in São Tomé and Príncipe, a small country in the Gulf of Guinea ,off the Western coast of Africa. Aissata has lived in six countries around the world and speaks five languages fluently. Having travelled to more than 50 countries world wide […]
Born in 1943, Harold Klunder is one of Canada’s leading painters. Klunder was born just two years before the end of the second world war, in the Netherlands. His family moved to Canada in the early fifties after the war was over. Klunder paints large, vivid abstract paintings, which he describes as an alternative approach […]
Deep meditation where one enters an altered state of consciousness is something that is important to me as an artist and on a personal level. I practice meditation daily, as a way to focus my mind on my goals and to access the more creative side of my brain. Very often, while in deep meditative […]
This post is a bit of a departure from my usual postings, on art and success, however, when I was approached by the managing director of the ACIIS in the run up to the investment summit on the 10th of April, I was excited by the prospect of the event and decided to look into […]
Born in 1981, Ben H. Summers studied Fine Art at the Slade School of Art in London. Summers recalls being interested in drawing from a very early age, taking inspiration from the natural world, the human form and built spaces. Music has always had a huge impact on him, to the extent that after graduation […]
Renee Cox, a Jamaican American mixed media artist is described in her biography as one of the most “Controversial African-American artists working today.” Born in 1960 in Jamaica, Cox often uses her own body to critique what she sees as an inherently sexist and racist society, while simultaneously celebrating what it means to be black […]
Moon cycle, period, full moon. This week, I have simultaneously experienced intense pleasure and excruciating pain28th July 2022 - 7:14 pmPainting 2021 Pigment and spray paint on wooden board 121 x 192 cm
It’s 3am and one of the most intense, spiritual, divinely feminine, creative, sexual experiences just happened in my brain while I slept off the pain (Part 1)28th July 2022 - 6:24 pmPainting 2021 Pigment on canvas 153 x 102 cm
The pain took me to another place with the pleasure and it was a magical beautiful creative womb space28th July 2022 - 6:24 pmPainting 2021 Pigment on canvas 120 x 183 cm
Where my whole body came more alive than it ever has been but only in my mind28th July 2022 - 6:23 pmPainting 2021 Pigment and spray paint on canvas 76 x 76 cm
There is a kind of violence in my desire for you28th July 2022 - 6:23 pmPainting 2021 Pigment and ink on hand-made khadi paper 111 x 162 cm
Softly, gently, slowly28th July 2022 - 6:23 pmPainting 2021 Pigment and ink on hand-made khadi paper 83 x 198 cm
Arachne II (enyɔ): Healing Dislocated Cultures. Gallery 1957, London. 30 May 202410th June 2024 - 4:40 pm
Art Money29th April 2024 - 1:01 pm
Adelaide DamoahContemporary And… Constellations – Part 1: Figures on Earth & Beyond – Group Show13th March 2024 - 12:00 am
Adelaide Damoah 202360th Venice Biennale. ‘In Praise of Black Errantry’. Unit Gallery x Courtauld Institute5th March 2024 - 9:48 am
AKADi Magazine: Gallery 1957 to mark 8th anniversary with two-city multimedia art exhibition5th February 2024 - 12:00 am
Art News Africa: Gallery 1957 Presents Constellations – Part 1: Figures On Earth & Beyond1st February 2024 - 12:11 am