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Damilola Ajegbomogun Damilola Samuel Ajegbomogun is a Nigerian artist whose work explores duality, emotion, and the shifting nature of human experience. Working primarily with oil on canvas, he uses colour, texture, and expressive brushwork to navigate the space between opposites, from silence and expression to creation and erasure. His practice reflects an ongoing search for meaning, where each painting becomes a site of reflection rather than resolution. Rooted in an interest in human feeling and perception, his work invites open interpretation, allowing viewers to connect through their own experiences. Through a balance of instinct and intention, Ajegbomogun creates paintings that sit between abstraction and figuration, capturing moments of tension, change, and becoming. Follow Suit, 2025 Oil on canvas Nuance 2, 2025 Oil on canvas Dreams (Pianist), 2024 Oil on canvas Cast 3, 2023 Oil on canvas Lead, 2025 Oil on canvas Previous Next Connect with the Artist >

Stephen Langa Stephen Langa is a South African artist whose work captures the lived experiences of Black communities across rural and urban life. Working with oil, charcoal, and soft pastels, his expressive scenes are shaped by personal memories, a deep connection to place, and inspiration from his father, who is also an artist. Influenced by Impressionism an art movement that began in France in the late 19th century, characterised by its focus on capturing brief moments, light, and atmosphere, rather than precise details or traditional realism. and artists like George Pem-bah Sterphen compositions often centre quiet, everyday moments filled with feeling. His layered textures and subtle detail evoke both intimacy and introspection, inviting viewers to reflect on shifting identities, belonging, and the realities of movement between spaces. Like my mother, 2024 Oil on canvas Moment of Time, 2022 Charcoal and soft pastels on paper For in the colors of love, Her eye's Define, 2024 Charcoal and soft pastels on paper At the gambling table they are no fathers & son's, 2023 Charcoal and soft pastels on paper Through the window I see "2" Self portrait, 2024 Oil on canvas Previous Next Connect with the Artist >

Hammed Abolaji Oba Hammed Abolaji Oba is a Lagos-based social-realist painter and graduate of Yaba College of Technology whose practice combines bold palette knife technique with rich textural depth. Working primarily with acrylic on canvas, he incorporates gold paint as a deliberate gesture of elevation, honouring his subjects while weaving technical realism with traditional African motif. His work addresses themes of economic disparity, religious influence, and resilience, driven by a commitment to equity and the collective striving of society. TANGLED IN GOLD, 2025 Acrylic on canvas ILE OBINRIN O KIN PE SU, 2025 Acrylic on canvas ÌFẸ́ ÀTIJỌ́" Painting Acrylic on canvas BEYOND THE GAZE: UNVEILING WORLDS WITHIN, 2025 Acrylic on canvas THE GOLD BENEATH THE SURFACE, 2024 Acrylic on canvas Previous Next Connect with the Artist >

Gloria Mmaduako Gloria Eberechukwu Mmaduako is a Nigerian visual artist based in Enugu whose abstract paintings celebrate the power, resilience, and beauty of women. Working with acrylic and oil on canvas, she incorporates natural symbols such as leaves and flowers to weave layered narratives of transformation, growth, and renewal, drawing on the plant's quiet ability to shed and begin again. Her work also explores human connection and African culture through the use of traditional motifs and fabric, speaking to shared experiences of strength and becoming. EJIMA, 2024 Mixed media Twilight, 2023 Oil on canvas Trinity of Love, 2024 Mixed media Unveiled Journeys, 2024 Harmony I, 2024 Mixed media Previous Next Connect with the Artist >

Yvadney Davis Yvadney Davis is a British Caribbean artist whose practice centres on memory, home and the lived experience of the Caribbean diaspora in the UK. Returning to painting during the pandemic, she found the process both meditative and grounding, allowing mark-making to become a way of holding emotion and history. Her work draws deeply from family narratives, particularly the Windrush generation, transforming domestic details such as wallpaper, pattern and ornament into visual archives of belonging. Through painting and collage, Davis captures everyday moments, inherited stories and collective memory, creating spaces where personal history becomes shared experience and where overlooked lives are made visible with tenderness and care. She Wore the Islands, 2025 Mixed Media Inset Day, 2025 Mixed Media Sorrow, SE22, 2025 Mixed Media Afternoon Down East Street Market, 2025 Mixed Media This Is My Little Boy, 2024 Mixed Media Previous Next Connect with the Artist >

Amatullah Alhassan Amatullah Alhassan is a Nigerian artist whose practice is shaped by self-expression, memory, and the emotional depth of Black womanhood. Self-taught and driven by curiosity, she began painting seriously in 2020, developing a visual language that moves beyond realism into something more personal and instinctive. Her work often centres Black women adorned in head ties and traditional dress, using geometry and layered lines to bring structure to emotion, imagination, and inner complexity. Rooted in culture and lived experience, her paintings reflect pride, softness, and identity, while recurring elements such as sunflowers introduce hope, joy, and renewal. Through motherhood, migration, and memory, Amatullah creates work that feels intimate, grounded, and deeply connected to the beauty of being seen. Sisterhood Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 100 cm Sunflower lady Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 100 cm My mother Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 100 cm Beat your own drum Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 100 cm Queen of pentacles 120 x 90cm Previous Next Connect with the Artist >

Olamilekan Okunade Olamilekan Okunade is a Nigerian artist whose work centres on the strength, resilience, and presence of women. Based in Lagos, his practice developed from an early interest in colour, shape, and form, later refined through formal training in painting. Working primarily with acrylic, he creates figurative compositions influenced by interlocking patterns inspired by brick structures, using them to build layered surfaces that reflect connection and endurance. His focus on women stems from personal experience, particularly the influence of his mother, whose strength continues to shape his perspective. Through his work, Okunade explores themes of identity, care, and well-being, while raising awareness around issues affecting African women and their lived realities. Crown of Union, 2025 Acrylic on canvas Ètàn (Deception), 2025 Acrylic on canvas The One Who Paints Her Future, 2025 Acrylic on canvas Crown of Union ll, 2025 Acrylic on canvas One Who Paints Her Future II, 2025 Acrylic on canvas Previous Next Connect with the Artist >

Megan Gabrielle Harris Megan Gabrielle Harris, is a Afro-American multi-disciplinary artist of Nigerian descent. Megan's acrylic paintings are heavily influenced by travel, surreal landscapes, and nature, often featuring women of colour depicted as powerful, regal, and divine against vibrant backdrops. Rooted in the traditions of afro-escapism and surrealism, Gabrielle Harris explores dreamscapes and the concept of escape, drawing inspiration from her father, Thomas Harris, who painted in the Escapism style. Her art celebrates rest, leisure, and the beauty of nature, using edenic elements to communicate the sacredness and divinity of the natural world. In this serene, paradisiacal setting, her muses embody heightened versions of themselves, feminine, fragile, and free. Holiday, 2022 Acrylic on canvas Reprieve, 2021 Acrylic on canvas Reverie, 2022 Acrylic on canvas Lunch at Blanco Colima, 2022 Acrylic on canvas I Just Want to Feel Something, 2021 Acrylic on canvas, Previous Next Connect with the Artist >

John Akande John Akande is a Nigerian contemporary artist based in Lagos whose vivid figurative paintings celebrate the richness and rhythm of African culture in its everyday form. Largely self-taught and refined through formal study at Yaba College of Technology, he works across acrylics, mixed media, and oil, often incorporating newspaper collage to reflect dialogue between past and present. His compositions explore identity, memory, and the spirit of African life, carrying a rhythmic quality influenced by music and animation. Akande has exhibited across Nigerian and international art scenes, building a growing following among collectors and curators. Previous Next Connect with the Artist >

Leonard Baloyi Leonard Baloyi, is a South African visual artist whose portraits offer a tender yet probing reflection on the emotional and psychological weight of everyday life. Working with oil, acrylic, pastel and charcoal, he crafts expressive figurative works that navigate themes of identity, vulnerability and the quiet erosion of empathy. Influenced by his upbringing in Soweto, Baloyi draws on personal memories, books and music to build scenes that speak to the complexities of human emotion. His figures often exist in moments of stillness or introspection, rendered through brushwork that mirrors the fluctuating states of the inner world. Texture plays a central role in his practice, with layered surfaces revealing the tension between presence and absence. Generational Bond, 2024 Acrylics and Oils on canvas Embracing Vulnerability, 2024 Acrylics and Oils on canvas Hysterical harmony, 2024 Acrylics and Oils on canvas The warmth of human connection IIII Acrylics and oils on canvas Beyond the gaze II, 2024 Acrylic on canvas Previous Next Connect with the Artist >

Omoyeni Arogunmati Omoyeni Arogunmati is an award-winning Nigerian visual artist and Blkarthouse Artist Advisory Board Member whose work centres on a series of impressionist portraits rendered with varying degrees of abstraction. Working in oil and acrylic, she uses bold brush and palette knife strokes to create layered, textured compositions that explore human facial expression and emotion. Her restrained palette of bold primary tones against raw colour blends gives her work a distinctive, instantly recognisable quality. Her practice reflects deeply personal and universal human feelings, both intimate and exterior. Previous Next Connect with the Artist >