by Think-Local-Digital | Feb 24, 2024
My Ken Saro-Wiwa Painting My Ken Saro-Wiwa Painting 48” x 42”, acrylic on stretched canvas, 1995 This painting is my response to the execution of nine Nigerians in November 1995. Their deaths were “authorized” by the Nigerian dictator, President Sani...
by Think-Local-Digital | Feb 24, 2024
In The Middle Of A War In the middle of a war – A televised footnote from a sponsor. 36” x 30”, acrylic on stretched canvas, 2003 The background context to this painting is that I was sitting on our lounge one Friday night watching the football on...
by Think-Local-Digital | Feb 24, 2024
Give Me Some Awakening Giants Give Me Some Awakening Giants Who Can Dance 48” x 42”, acrylic on stretched canvas, 1997 This painting was inspired by the title of a book “When Giants Learn to Dance”, by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a Harvard Business School...
by Think-Local-Digital | Feb 24, 2024
An Aeroplane Stopped “An Aeroplane Stopped… In the middle of my sky.” 48” x 42”, acrylic on stretched canvas, 1997 I understand that the title of this painting was one of the French writer Simone de Beauvoir’s shorthand ways of registering how her life...
by Think-Local-Digital | Feb 24, 2024
Three Flowers Three Flowers Seen Among Blues and Greens With A Leaping Orange Shemozzle 48” x 42”, acrylic on stretched canvas, 1996 For me, this painting represents an exploration into the question of what if colour has a life of its own?” – a question I first saw...
