While we still celebrate Olajumoke with her rise from a bread seller to a top model, and Daniel Dada Ayodele the first student with a perfect CGPA 5.0 from Unilag, another star in the making, an artist Oresegun Olumide is rising.
His hyper realistic paintings have caught the attention of many lately, and he’s now even made it on CNN.
The 35 year old studied Fine Art at YABATECH and graduated with a distinction. His artworks take anywhere from a weeks to a few months, depending on the level of detail.
From celebrating the virtue of womanhood to highlighting the naked innocence of children or projecting the doggedness of the average Nigerian hustler, Oresegun’s paintings address an array of contemporary themes – and they tug at even the most scientific of minds with an emotional, artistic intensity that the subject must consider himself incapable of exhibiting.
For the current set of paintings, Oresegun is receiving plaudits from both friends and strangers. So the question has been asked, rightly so, by one of his latest admirers: where has he been all along? A peek at some of his works…
“Olumide, people are looking for you. I mean foreigners,” a fan wrote on Oresegun’s Facebook wall.
“His name is Oresegun Olumide and he drew these … Do we need to go further looking for foreign artists? We have them here!” wrote another.
It was Chika Onyenezi, another fan, who had some of the kindest words for the artist, writing: “This artist is not just talented, he is a genius, a magician. Importantly, his art is alive.”
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It is absolutely normal to gush about these works; what is abnormal is how long it has taken us to discover Oresegun. At 35, the Yaba College of Technology (YabaTech) graduate can count himself a late bloomer, but it is looking increasing likely that his rise to prominence over the coming months will be meteoric.
Perhaps feeling he hadn’t had the recognition he deserved, Oresegun wrote on Twitter in October 2013: “Why can’t someone hear that I am knocking.”
Not anymore. Henceforth, he will be heard when he knocks – not just by someone but by everyone, by the entire world.
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Creativity good job
ReplyDeleteNature just found its perfect definer!
ReplyDeleteHe is a born Artist. Keep it up my Brother, for you are real.
ReplyDeletethese look so real, keep the good work man
ReplyDeleteI so much love his hyper realistic drawing. I pray God lift him up with his talent!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThat's yabatech graduate. Proud of the school
ReplyDeleteGood job, you are blessed
ReplyDeletedefinition of talent, you don,t learn this in school you only fine tune it.
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