August Spotlight Artists: Michael Fiscian and Christabel Brittany

This August, THE.CCART spotlights two Ghanaian painters whose practices explore the depth of human experience through expressive figurative and abstract work. Michael Fiscian and Christabel Brittany each bring a distinct visual language to their art, one rooted in the communicative power of women's faces and the stories embedded in everyday materials, the other in richly textured surfaces that sit between identity, culture, and open interpretation. Together, their work reflects the strength and diversity of contemporary painting emerging from Ghana.

Michael Fiscian: Emotion, Expression, and Everyday Stories

Michael Fiscian is a Ghanaian painter born and raised in Accra, whose practice was shaped by studies in graphic, portrait, and figurative painting at Ghanata College of Art and Design. Working with acrylic and newspaper collage on canvas, he incorporates cut newspaper as a material that carries real voices and stories, a tradition rooted in his grandmother's life as a newspaper seller.

His work centres on the expressive power of women, capturing joy, strength, worry, and peace through facial expression and body language. Each painting reflects a deep fascination with the way emotion communicates itself without words, creating portraits that feel immediate, layered, and quietly powerful.

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Christabel Brittany: Texture, Identity, and Open Interpretation

Christabel Brittany is a Ghanaian abstract figurative painter whose largely self-taught practice began in 2024, building on a background in visual arts and fashion design at Bluecrest College of Creative Arts. Her training in fashion continues to inform her approach to colour, composition, texture, and storytelling, each element finding its way naturally into her painting.

Working across acrylic, oil, markers, pastels, and beads, Brittany builds richly textured surfaces that explore themes of identity, culture, faith, and human behaviour. Her work invites open interpretation, creating space for conversation and personal reflection rather than offering fixed meaning, resulting in paintings that feel alive with possibility.

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This August, explore the work of Michael Fiscian and Christabel Brittany. Through layered materials, expressive portraiture, and textured abstraction, their practices offer two distinct but complementary ways of seeing, reminding us of the richness of contemporary Ghanaian painting.

By THE.CCART