Touches of Colour This two-piece painting on canvas celebrates the vibrancy of colour in African fabrics and the significance of the various colours in many West African cultures. The blue fabric symbolizes love and peace and the soothing nature of the colour of the sky. The red represents friction in the spiritual or political sphere. White symbolizes purity and spiritually and is carefully intermingled here with gold, which represents wealth and fertility. The synchronicity between the material and spiritual world hereby being represented.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Zeinat Gelli is a Nigerian artist who mainly works in oil on canvas, a medium which allows her to establish a stylistically rich toned, layered and fluid feel to her paintings. Inspired by her passion for both art and life sciences from an early age, her work blends principles from both areas using the study of form and interaction to capture the subtlety of meaning, mood and emotion.
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