Adesewa by Faith Gbadero
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Medium: Oil and Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 17 x 22.3 in
Year: 2025
Price: $1600.00 USD
Status: available
This artwork was born from my reflection on the quiet resilience of the African woman, how she carries her identity with grace even when life feels heavy. I painted Adésẹwà standing before the mountains of her journey, not in defeat, but in a calm acceptance of who she’s becoming. The soft sky mirrors her inner healing, that gentle return to sanity and self after surviving silent battles. Her blue blouse reflects her tenderness, while the gold earring reminds us of the value she holds within, a heritage, a story, a strength she refuses to lose. She stands here as a symbol of every woman who rises with dignity, shaping beauty from her scars and finding peace within her own becoming.
Why collect this work?
A frontal face, turned shoulders, and compressed mountain forms make composure appear less like escape than a position maintained within difficulty.
- Gbadero’s statement identifies identity, memory, and becoming as recurring concerns. In Adesewa, these ideas are focused through one figure whose controlled pose resists a fixed narrative.
- In the supplied photograph, the sitter looks outward while her torso turns aside. Rounded hair masses and a circular gold earring counter the angular peaks, while the pale blouse links her silhouette to the cooler mountains.
- The catalogue records oil and acrylic on canvas. This combination can support both broad opaque shapes and tonal transitions, possibilities visible in the contrast between the simplified landscape and modeled face, though the photograph cannot identify which paint produced each passage.
- Dated 2025 and measuring 17 by 22.3 inches, the painting joins portraiture with symbolic landscape. Its curatorial interest lies in how bodily orientation, gaze, and surrounding terrain convert the artist’s stated theme of resilience into a formal tension.
About the Artist
Faith Gbadero
Faith Gbadero is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Ogbomoso, NG.
Nationality: Nigerian
My art is driven by a desire to understand and express the human experience through layered narratives of identity, connection, memory, and becoming.
