STAY FOCUSED, HAVE A CLEAR VISION OF WHAT YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE, AND BE PATIENT. POUR YOUR HEART AND SOUL INTO YOUR WORK, AND LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES."
-WILSON IMINI
Wilson Imini (b.2000), a young, dedicated artist, began painting in his early teens. Before then, he discovered his talent for art when his cousin, a figure like an elder brother, handed him a pencil and paper with a half-finished sketch and asked him to complete it. For the better part of an hour, hestayed busy with the sketch and completed it. "I just forgot about everything and enjoyed finishing the sketch," he said. His talent continued to grow, garnering praise from schoolmates and friends and winning 3rd place in the senior category of the NNPC/Chevron National Art Competition.
Imini’s interests and œuvre now focused on figurative paintings that blend life portraiture with imagination.
The paintings are done in bright—or, more appropriately, bold colors.
There are large swathes of sky and grass, and intense young faces tinged red.
The figures in the paintings are self-assured and powerful, occupying a central world in which all forces and influences seem to belong and revolve around them. There are hardly any blurs; every feature of the landscape, every facial expression, and every detail of the background is clearly delineated. Nothing, it seems, is an afterthought. Every feature centers the subject and makes visible the world that they occupy. About the subjects in his paintings, Imini says, The idea of a
