Face Your Fears by Benjamin Omoike
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Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas
Dimensions: 85 x 120 cm
Year: 2026
Price: $1400.00 USD
Status: available
This painting is a powerful reminder that courage begins the moment we confront what seeks to hold us back. The figure’s unwavering gaze reflects quiet confidence, the timeless elegance of culture and identity while the intricate patterns symbolize the experiences, challenges, and lessons that shape resilience. Behind every fear lies an opportunity for growth, and only by facing it can we discover our true strength. It encourages viewers to meet uncertainty with courage, embrace vulnerability, and move forward with purpose. It reminds us that fear is not a barrier rather it is the doorway to transformation.
Why collect this work?
A near-bilateral portrait is held together by a frontal gaze, while differences within its dense patterns keep the face from becoming fixed or uniform. Resolve is pictured as composure amid complexity.
- The artist’s statement connects his practice with African heritage, identity and resilience. In this work, identity takes shape through emphatic design and accumulated motifs rather than naturalistic likeness.
- In the photograph, enlarged eyes dominate a face divided into green and yellow compartments. Gold linear motifs, red lips, blue side fields and a radiating black-and-white collar create distinct but interdependent zones.
- Catalogued as mixed media on canvas, 85 by 120 cm, the work sets intricate lines against broad areas of opaque and variegated colour. Mixed media may support these shifts in density, although the photograph cannot confirm exact materials or surface texture.
- For an account of contemporary portraiture, this painting demonstrates how ornament can construct a face rather than merely embellish it. Its title directs the steady gaze toward fear, but the image leaves courage visible as controlled attention, not triumph.
About the Artist
Benjamin Omoike
Benjamin Omoike is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: mixed-media. Based in Ogun State , NG.
Nationality: Nigerian
His work blends abstract expression with mixed-media techniques.
