Artists

My name is Emmanuel LINFORD Adjei, I am I was born on the 22nd of May 1980. My love for people, places, and culture encourage me to paint what I paint. My works captures a variety of human emotions in an oeuvre that seems very much of day to day activities. My coloristic simplicity and roughness are appealing to an audience that yearns for beauty but questions how it is done. After junior high school, I worked for a while and attended a technical school with the funds acquired. I chose to study architectural draftsmanship, because of my flair in drawing and art. After 4 years, I graduated from the technical school (Modern School of Craftsmanship). I later worked as a foreman with a company that did fabrication and interior design. Now I work on my own; and from time to time, I practice my God-given talent, which is painting. I paint with acrylic on canvas and my inspiration is derived from my happy moments--I paint when I am happy.

I am intrigued and driven by the journey from the narrative to the image. This journey guides me to explore form, colour, perspective and depth in the overlapping consecutive layers. The narrative feeds the different layers of the painting, just as in a conventional way of designing on tracing paper, transporting my words onto the canvas. The narrative is constructed much like designing, from observation, to research, to sketching, and finally to testing the proposed solution. Using printing rollers, and mixing the paint on the canvas, I place my words through the different media and the outcome informs the text. As a response the narrative is updated and consequently another layer is created on the canvas. This dialogue eventually concludes. I was born in Athens, I now live and work in London.