Meet Most Multi-Talented Nigerian Artist: The Secrets Behind His Art Work

                    

While a number of you are still wondering and worrying about the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic people are making the most of this time maximally. 

No doubt the pandemic has hit tremendously on the world Economic- you know, people happen to be at the end of the rope; while others have lost their jobs, they have no money in the bank to pay the hospital bills, in fact in a most extreme case, some lost their loved ones to COVID-19 and, the list continues so on and so forth. I know it is a real basket case. However, even when you've got cold feet afterward, you have to still forge ahead to actualize your goals and dreams. Our future is ours to decide regardless of the happenings around us.

Just a quick one, I will like you to meet a young Nigerian creative artist, popularly called Mr. Waduud, a motivational speaker, and a poet, a mental health advocate whose work of art is quite commendably interesting, and characterized by variety as the color in the line of art wheel itself. If you love to draw, as an artist’s statement explains, your work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance.

Even with the tension caused by the pandemic, 2020 has been his most productive year as he lays his inks on the walls of big brands like CULTURATI walls, PRINTIVO, SPAR, NOUN FM, FACES BY LABISI, and TANNCKO as you meet him.

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He hails from Lagos state, Nigeria. He is also known as a moralist. He draws, inks, and writes poetry.

According to Mr. Waduud, art is a way he expresses himself; his freedom in its entirety; it's the ability to be and not to be. It's the expression of his innermost feelings, the decoration of his next stages, and thought that cannot be stopped by anybody.

He's currently a finalist of Obafemi Awolowo University, studying "Fine and applied Art". He's the founder and host of a creative community advocating for mental wellness called Qing's journal, the community is a melting pot for creatives wanting to have productive conversations around mental health issues and an expression center for people for mental illness in Nigeria and beyond.

He is still evolving his heart to tell the Africans story but at the moment, all he's just using is in embedding the African traditional patterns into some of his designs. Africans are known to be very colorful in attires, settings, and displays. So that has been his inspiration tending to infuse the whole lot of colors in the designs in order to call attention and driving imaginations.

He has found himself drawn to a variety of arts, but most recently he been drawn to art about messages.

Amongst other attributes of his, he loves dancing with characters, things that are beyond figures and more characteristic in nature; more about letters, more about the context, and definitions of much magic few words can make; how much meaning, just a couple of pattern can mean and he tends to be drawn to everything that allows gives him freedom.

The community has so far succeeded in painting mental statements such as "you are free to be who you are";  "we move" and "keep going" at strategic places in Lagos.

He actually paints with brushes, works with spray as well as ink and pen, at the same time, with pencils. The bedrock of everything at art is being able to move from one line to the other for a person that tries to drives or to perfecting or close enough to it.

His art is something that has evolved over the years; was started as a hobby and it was driven by passion but now as we're speaking is more of a profession.

Last year, he curated two of the first poetic conversational series of its kind #DearAboutBambi and #3xyourterapist which are co-written with over 35 writers but still counting as the series awaits continuation.

Ten to fifteen years he sees himself still keeping at what he loves doing, still learning, and growing. He is purpose-driven regardless of the challenge he would face. His main inspiration amongst other artists is Elseed @elseed, a Tunisian artist.  

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