Shadow of grace and hope by Babafemi Ogunkanmbi
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Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 23.5 x 29 in
Year: 2024
Price: $1400.00 USD
Status: available
Here are two ladies, gazing strong and bright, shine with grace, in morning light. Their hope is a beacon in the night, guiding others, with love's pure might. With hearts full of kindness and care, They touch lives, beyond compare. Their shadows fall, a gentle hue, Reflecting beauty, pure and true. May their essence inspires, guide and Spreading hopes, where love resides. In their presence, hearts find peace, With these two ladies, love's release.
Why collect this work?
Two blue faces emerge from interlocking dark hair, while flat pink and orange garments press the figures forward. This compression presents companionship as protective but not uniform: each woman retains a distinct gaze.
- Ogunkanmbi’s profile identifies love, equity and justice as recurring concerns. His accompanying text casts the women as sources of care and hope, an intention given visual form through their close alignment.
- In the photograph, the nearer face turns sideways while the second looks more directly ahead. Their divergent gazes complicate the joined silhouette, and the narrow landscape-like band above contrasts with the dominant bodies below.
- The catalogue records acrylic on canvas. The medium can support the abrupt shifts seen here between saturated blue skin, dense brown hair and broad areas of pink and orange, separating the figures chromatically while their hair binds the composition.
- The painting provides a focused case for considering how double portraiture can picture solidarity without erasing individuality. The tension between joined contours and separate lines of sight gives the artist’s stated theme of hope a specific formal basis.
About the Artist
Babafemi Ogunkanmbi
Babafemi Ogunkanmbi is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Ibadan , NG.
Nationality: Nigerian
Currently, Babafemi Chooses to make use of lines (scarifications) which were scared all through the body of his art which is an embodiment of...
