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Two or Three Days, Then Leave It

By Nataliia Ivaniv

Nataliia Ivaniv paints on the floor, works fast while the acrylic is wet, then steps back and gives herself 72 hours to decide if anything needs to change.

Two or Three Days, Then Leave It

The Colors Speak First

By Raquel Reis

Brazilian painter Raquel Reis works fast, trusts her ear for color, and has spent more than twenty years learning precisely when a painting is finished and when it only looks that way.

The Colors Speak First

The Car in the Middle of the Road

By Nasha Maryam

Nasha Maryam paints deserts and coastlines from memory, working in Sharjah with acrylics, texture paste, and a slow-drying medium that buys her time.

The Car in the Middle of the Road

The Weight of an Empty Jerrycan

By Iyanuoluwa Babalola

Lagos painter Iyanuoluwa Babalola on rough surfaces, deliberate omissions, and a coming work about addiction he hasn't started yet.

The Weight of an Empty Jerrycan

Benjamin Omoike Starts Every Piece With Rope

By Benjamin Omoike

The Ogun State artist builds figures from rope, sorted fabric, and hand-mixed pigment. His method is slow, material-first, and harder to copy than it looks.

Benjamin Omoike Starts Every Piece With Rope

Six Layers for a Shirt Nobody Ironed

By Kais

Kais paints Disney characters onto real dollar bills—not as nostalgia, but as a record of the daily performance of wealth he watches in Dubai.

Six Layers for a Shirt Nobody Ironed

The Gun, the Circle, and the Black Canvas

By Olumide Ajayi

Olumide Ajayi works in batches—three or four canvases at once—and hides numbers in the paint. The Ibadan painter is only getting started.

The Gun, the Circle, and the Black Canvas

From a Desolate Place, the Lights Come On

By Deeride

Dubai-based abstract artist Deeride builds layered, textured canvases from depression, travel, and the memory of standing in the dark watching the Aurora Borealis ignite.

From a Desolate Place, the Lights Come On

The Resistance Is Only in the Human

By xUEkA

Portuguese painter xUEkA spent years building structures as a civil engineer. Now he builds visual languages — and collectors on four continents are paying attention.

The Resistance Is Only in the Human

The Dirt Is the Point

By Pipe obando

Colombian artist Pipe Obando draws racing helmets and vintage cars in charcoal from his home in Austria. He has two solo shows booked in Vienna and a practice that is, by his own account, barely two.

The Dirt Is the Point

What Holds the Truth of the Work

By Faith Gbadero

Faith Gbadero's paintings sit with unresolved feeling. The Ogbomoso-based artist on rawness, restraint, and what nearly killed 'Adesewa'.

What Holds the Truth of the Work

If a Bat Has Only One Hand Left

By Oluwafemi Afolabi

Oluwafemi Afolabi paints bats and Ankara fabric into figurative work rooted in his mother's sacrifices. The symbols are biographical, not decorative.

If a Bat Has Only One Hand Left

What the Canvas Let Out

By Hansa Sethi

Hansa Sethi, 29, makes bold-colored paintings about depression, survival, and psychological states — and insists the brightness is not a contradiction.

What the Canvas Let Out