Since my first contact with drawing and when I started practicing arts professionally, figurative art and portraiture have been at the core of my artistic interest and exploration. My works have been based on representational art-Largely focusing on people's perceptions, lived experiences and how it dictates their behaviors towards aftermaths of Mile 12 riots in Lagos Nigeria. A commercial environment that inhabits almost all the tribes in Nigeria. Observing the scenes around, listening to people's conversation in the environment with the fear that another riot may occur narrows the interpretation of my arts practice.
My personal observations, scenes and conversations in my immediate environment are translated on my pieces of canvas. Living among a large people and a commercial environment influenced my choice of narrative.
My paintings are depicted on a smooth surface-textured background forming irregular waves and lines and subjected with bright and vivid colors of the figures in the composition with skin of the subjects portrayed in an interwoven line. All- these are aimed to achieve the environmental appearance that births my narrations.
I draw inspirations from artists such as Barkley L. Hendricks who made pioneering contributions to Black portraiture and conceptualism, James Van der Zee photography and Kehinde Wiley's approach to highly naturalistic paintings of African-Americans also inspires my motives.
