submitted on Sat, 11/17/2007 - 12:46 in Shola Akintonwa Niche by BossyDiva 
Nigerian born artist Shola Akintonwa ,lives and works between Rome and London. Her paintings echo every aspect of her multi faceted history - a fusion of african tribal influences and the lifestyle of a modern day woman.
Ethereal figures are framed against backgroundswith the texture and pigment of ancient times
The grandaughter of a Nigerian Oba ,the Yoruba people believe her family to be direct descendants of the Goddess herself .
The famous American conceptual artist Joseph Kasouth likens her work to another of his contemporaries, Jasper Johns .
Shola combines multimedia textures ,ground pigments ,paper ,cardboard etc with oils and acylics to create surreal heavily textured surfaces with an ancient organic quality .
Prince Jonathon Doria Pamphilij personally introduced her and her work to Rome creating a private gallery space to house a permanent solo exhibition .He compares her figurative style to the Giacommetti "What appears to be monochrome surface is in fact an exiquisite myriad of colour, layer upon layer of paint eroded and tooled. Worked into silhouettes of majestic women with gracefully elongated limbs ,sensual african curves , always in elegant repose"
