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Ọmọrohun: The becoming of stone

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This painting draws inspiration from an Ogidi-Ela legend rooted in River Ohe and its surrounding landscape. It tells the story of Ọmọrohun, a powerful river goddess whose beautiful daughter was captured by seven fishermen and mistaken for a fish. She was carried from the river to the top of a low hill, crying out for her mother to come to her rescue. On the hill, driven by greed and ignorance, the fishermen cut her into seven pieces, ready to be shared among themselves. As they prepared to claim their portions, a violent storm suddenly broke out. Thunder, rain, and darkness filled the sky as Ọmọrohun emerged from the river, running toward the hill in anguish. Terrified by her approach and by the fury of nature itself, the fishermen fled, abandoning the remains on the hill. When the storm finally subsided, the pieces had transformed into seven fish-like stones which, according to legend, remain on the hill to this day. This painting reflects my enduring interest in memory...
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Can Wisdom Live in a Bad Person? ~ An AI Reflection

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We often speak of wisdom as though it naturally comes bundled with kindness, empathy, compassion, and moral clarity. A “wise person,” we assume, must also be good. But life, history, and human experience complicate that assumption. This raises an uncomfortable but important question: can wisdom exist in someone whose character lacks the very virtues we associate with it? Can wisdom be found in a bad person? The answer depends largely on how we define wisdom. If wisdom is understood simply as knowledge, insight, or a deep understanding of how the world and human beings work, then yes—such wisdom can exist in morally flawed individuals. History offers many examples of people who were strategically brilliant, psychologically perceptive, and intellectually sharp, yet destructive, cruel, or self-serving. Their understanding was real. Their foresight was often accurate. What they lacked was not intelligence, but moral grounding. However, if wisdom is understood more fully—as the ...
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Valley of the Setting Sun (Sunset Series)

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Valley of the Setting Sun was painted in a quiet moment of reflection, when the day begins to withdraw and light lingers just long enough to be felt. The enclosing dark forms suggest a valley, both physical and emotional, while the glowing horizon and its reflection speak of continuity, memory, and hope. Sunset has always been a sacred hour for me: a time of pause, gratitude, and gentle reckoning. In this work, the valley becomes a place of stillness where light does not disappear abruptly but settles slowly, inviting contemplation. It is neither the end of the day nor the arrival of night, but the space in between where life breathes softly and meaning reveals itself.
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Horizons Woven

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Over the next six months, I will be working on my most ambitious painting project to date.  The work involves sewing together fragments of multiple paintings, each originally created on loose, unstretched acrylic canvas, into a single monumental piece on linen, measuring approximately 9ft by 9ft. The central theme is sunset over sea, land, and sky. The individual paintings will vary in size, texture, and depth, allowing contrasts and conversations to emerge across the surface. I see this project as the creation of a stitched field of memories: distinct moments, moods, and spaces from past works brought together into one expansive, living composition. Driven by my long-standing interest in openness, space, and light, this work is conceived on a scale that invites immersion. It is intended for display in a large hallway, gallery, or exhibition hall, where viewers can stand before it and experience not just a painting, but a landscape shaped by time, movement, and refle...
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Duality in a Single Breath I & II

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"Duality in a Single Breath I & II" is a paired work that explores the coexistence of opposing states within a single moment of awareness. Though presented as two separate paintings, they are conceived as one continuous experience much like a breath that holds both inhale and exhale, tension and release. The upper and lower spaces within the compositions reflect contrasting energies: movement and stillness, uncertainty and calm, emergence and retreat. Colour and form are used instinctively rather than symbolically, allowing emotion to lead structure. A subtle horizon becomes a point of transition rather than division, suggesting that boundaries in life are often thresholds rather than endings. This series reflects the artist’s belief that dualities are not contradictions but essential companions. Light does not exist without darkness; silence gains meaning through sound. The works invite the viewer to pause, to breathe, and to recognise the fragile balance ...
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Carried for a While

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Parting with two of my favourite abstract paintings yesterday felt less like a transaction and more like a quiet rite of passage. Each painting carries not just colour and form, but time, memory, and emotion. It began simply, almost casually, with a post on my neighbourhood platform, Nextdoor, asking whether I was selling my work. My reply was a single word: “Yes.” Yet behind that word lay years of seeing, feeling, and becoming. The next message arrived as an image of three of my favourite paintings, one of which had already found a home long ago. Seeing them grouped together again felt like memory folding in on itself. It wa a reminder that art never truly leaves us, even when it has moved on. We arranged to meet on Friday at the local library, a place that already holds echoes of my past exhibitions. It seemed appropriate that such a moment would unfold there, surrounded by stories, silence, and accumulated thought. When the exchange was completed, I realised ...
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Dichotomy

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This abstract composition explores the silent tension between opposing states of existence: day and night, light and dark, movement and stillness, hope and uncertainty. This echoes ancient Chinese philosophy of yin and yang. The upper space is alive with shifting colours and restless energy, evoking the unpredictability of thought, memory, and becoming. Below, darkness settles into a deep, almost cosmic stillness, suggesting the weight of time, silence, and the unknown. A thin red horizon cuts across the canvas like a boundary that cannot be crossed without consequence. It is both a division and a connection, marking the fragile threshold where transformation occurs. Nearby, a solitary white orb hovers, neither triumphant nor defeated, reminding us that meaning often resides not in resolution, but in balance. This painting does not ask the viewer to choose a side. It is an invitation for reflection on the truth that life is lived perpetually between opposites and that wi...
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