The Enchanted Tea Cup by Raymond Omotolani Wright

Raymond Omotolani Wright was born in Agege on the 6th, of July 1997. He hails from Lagos State, Nigeria. He holds National Diploma(2017) and Higher National Diploma in painting from Auchi polytechnic Auchi, Edo state (2020). He is a Nigerian “artist whose environment themed work draws attention to the urgency of raising our concern for earth. His
inventiveness in subtly passing this message is in itself, creativity. By bringing together varied elements connected with nature into his composition, Omotolani reminds us that the earth is a shared space. His recent body of works shows a captivating fusion of figure paintings and animalism. In each work is blown up study of human face with much detailing of the eyes which according to artist, is a “window to the soul”. The hairs of figures also receive equally detailed workmanship, while the rest of the painting is usually reduced to color strokes using pallete knives and also, a mixed media artist who articulate his thought and ideas through his favorite subject matters, Omotolani primarily uses the face and a plethora of animals such as doves, snails, rabbits and others to make up his pieces. At other times his painting’s go beyond the figurative into abstraction without discernible images. Omotolani draws inspiration from what he calls “mans disconnected from nature”, a situation where the activities of humans are destroying the earth’s environmental concern and the need to bring the situation into the sharp focus of all concerned, those who are involved in the deterioration of world Ecosystem.