Acrylic painting — TIMES

Collection

Acrylic

Victoria Island,

Gallery II

Contemporary

Acquired 2022

Color with appetite

Acrylic rewards speed and revision: a surface can be opened, veiled, and opened again in a single afternoon. The works in this room carry that elasticity—thin glazes beside opaque passages, edges that were taped, torn, and rebuilt until the composition found its temper.

We chose pieces where pigment behaves like light stored in matter. They speak to Lagos evenings when the air holds heat and the city hums—bright, insistent, and still capable of tenderness.

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions

110cm × 90cm

Origin

Lagos studio

Period

2021–2023

Condition

Excellent

Provenance

Artist estate

Style

Contemporary figurative

What the surface admits

Look for the underdrawing ghosting through—a map the artist refused to erase—and for brush hairs caught in varnish, proof of proximity. These are not prints; they are decisions frozen at the last responsible moment.

The report sequence below moves you through five focal works. Let each layer replace the last the way one song hands off to another on a long drive: same road, new weather.

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