ARTIST BIO
I’m a self taught artist, 23yrs old born in Benue state Nigeria, who loves to work in all mediums and styles of art but traditionally a Ballpoint pen artist. Working mostly in portraiture focusing on realism bringing to life our everyday experiences without distortion or misappropriation but encoding ideas into my art to make them masterpieces. I use the ballpoint pen and ink specifically because they are tools from ancient times used in telling stories passing information across over generations in writings and I use them to retell the stories and experiences of my subjects by drawing realistic portraits and capturing their individual expressions. My creative process began at the age of seven (7). Understanding line language and understanding line movements while creating boils down to my conceptualisation of how I create my layers.My inspiration comes from luminescence as I’m fascinated by the way light falls on objects I then use the sfumato technique to transit between light and shadows in my works. I like to educate young Africans about the power that they posses by creating paintings about Africans and retelling their history and educating people about their rich cultures. I also like to dive into other aspects such as sculpting and street art painting in the future. Agbaka loves making paintings on subjects from variety of topics like politics, music, culture, nature. Currently working on my release for my NFT project “Freedom not free”
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