Samuel Sowatey

Ghana

Samuel Sowatey is a Ghanaian painter who lives and works in Accra. He attended La Presbyterian High School and is largely self-taught as a painter; the advice of the artists Ablade Glover and Amoako Boafo gave him an important push. His painting combines elements of expressionism and abstraction, and he draws lines into the paint layer with combs or palm brooms. He finds inspiration in family and community life and often depicts women and children. In 2019 his works were shown at Omanye House gallery in Accra. Both acrylic portraits of women offered by the gallery were shown in 2022 in the exhibition 'Contemporary African Art: Dreams and Realities of Identity' at the Vytautas Kasiulis Art Museum in Vilnius.

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