Petals of Becoming II by Faith Gbadero
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Medium: Oil & Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 30 x 36 in
Year: 2026
Price: $2499.00 USD
Status: available
We do not bloom all at once. There are seasons when we are hidden beneath the soil of expectation, fear, memory, and hope. Yet even in silence, growth is taking place. This series explores the journey of becoming—the gradual unfolding of self, the courage to occupy space, and the beauty that emerges when one chooses authenticity over approval. The face wears flower not as decoration, but as extensions of their being. The petals become crowns, shields, and voices for the parts of themselves that words cannot always express. Each bloom tells a story of transformation: of a person learning to embrace their complexity, their heritage, their tenderness, and their power. In this work, becoming is not a destination. It is a continuous act of unfolding.
Why collect this work?
An enlarged flower encircles a frontal face, making portraiture operate less as likeness than as a negotiation between visibility, protection and self-definition.
- Gbadero’s statement identifies identity, memory and becoming as concerns in his practice. In this painting, those themes take form through the fusion of person and bloom, although the image leaves their relationship unresolved.
- The supplied photograph shows broad pink petals pressing toward the canvas edges around a centrally placed face. Braided hair, looping facial lines and paired earrings create a compact geometry, while the raised eyes resist straightforward engagement.
- Catalogued as oil and acrylic on canvas, the work uses clearly separated areas of pink, green and dark brown. The documented combination of media allows different kinds of paint handling, but the photograph does not establish which medium produced specific passages.
- As the title Petals of Becoming II suggests, bodily and botanical forms are not cleanly divided. The painting provides a focused case for considering how contemporary portraiture can picture identity as unfolding rather than fixed.
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.
