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At Sankofa, we seek to grow and nurture personal relationships with our artists. We hope each artist’s story helps to paint a picture of their experience and expertise, and can help foster a deeper enjoyment and appreciation of their art.
Featured Artist
Seth Chrison
Chrison was born in 1957 in a forest region in eastern Ghana. At the age of ten years, he moved to the northeast of Ghana savannah region. These two types of geographical regions gave him two very different perspectives of life which can be seen in his work.
Chrison graduated from the Kumasi School of Fine Arts in 1982 and thereafter taught at that school for three years, before deciding to pursue his career as a freelance artist.
Initially, he was greatly influenced by the renowned Ghanaian artist Ato Delaquis, who had been his professor and mentor in using the figurative style of painting. Delaquis’ brother, a sculptor, also influenced him in cubism and traditional African art styles.
He started out painting in oil and acrylic but when he moved to Cote d’Ivoire in 1990, he began experimenting with watercolour. His paintings of the old lvorian capital, Grand Bassam, were such a success that he continued to use the medium all through the 90s. He later switched back to oil painting and currently paints almost exclusively in the medium.
His work has been exhibited in individual and group exhibitions in Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire and England, and can be found in private collections in many parts of the world, especially in the US, Europe and Africa.
The artist says of himself:
” I define myself as ‘an artist without borders ‘. My knowledge of various styles and techniques of painting permits me a great deal of freedom in the expression of what inspires me. My sources of inspiration are traditional African art, especially when l paint people or images that relate directly to the African tradition. I love to travel, and my journeys give me natural , original vibrations of being close to nature, whether it is in the desert or game parks with wild animals. I must admit however, that because of my mother’s very positive influence in my life, l am very much inspired by women, and they consequently feature prominently in the vast majority of my paintings.”
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