Cartlanna: Artists

Olayinka Temilade was born in 2002 in Kwara State, Nigeria. She is a textile artist who works with unique colors and various types of thread to create intricate effects and textures in her work, aiming for a realistic painting style. Beginning her artistic journey at a young age, her early passion evolved into a dedicated […]

Ijele is a self-taught Nigerian artist born in 1978. She grew up in Lagos and began her professional career as a banker before transitioning into advertising, where she became a professional advertising and marketing expert over the years. After a dramatic shift of events during the COVID era, which ignited an innate desire to create, […]

Bola Obatuyi is a talented mixed-media artist from Ibadan, Nigeria. Born in 1992, she primarily works with fabric and acrylic paint. Her art focuses on themes related to women’s bodies, identities, and charm, aiming to challenge and reframe perceptions of femininity. Obatuyi’s work often incorporates elements of the natural world, such as flowers, to highlight […]

Ejiro Owigho (b. 1980) in Lagos, Nigeria, is a full-time studio artist. She earned her National Diploma (ND) and Higher National Diploma (HND) degrees from Lagos State Polytechnic in 2014. She is an expressionist whose temperament depends on different mediums to fabricate her style of art. Her work primarily focuses on figures and portraits, reflecting […]

Raji Babatunde Mohammed (b. 1986) is a figurative impressionist whose works are characterized by zestful color action and self-possessed figuration, combining formalist concerns of aesthetics with the socio-political discourse of representation. Evident in his paintings is a rigorous artistic temperament, fortified by a career-long study and devotion to matters of aesthetics, coupled with an inspired […]

Oluwafunke Olademeji’s nocturnal paintings reveal an enchantment with light and the possibility of infinitude. Her adherence to a symbolist creed is interpreted through a variety of complex chromatic contrasts, in addition to the binary found in the heat of electric light and the chill of the sea: the vast, open skies and crowded urban life. […]

Okunola Victor Oluwaseun, also known as 4d, is a Nigerian artist born on July 30th, 1995, in Ede, Osun State, Nigeria. 4d is the fourth of five siblings. He attended Baptist High School in Ede, Osun State, and by the age of 12 had already developed an interest in art and painting. His passion and […]