Honest Composure Painting

Richard Adusu, born 1983 in Accra, Ghana, is a contemporary artist and a musician based around the shores of Accra the city of Ghana. He is a Diploma holder from The Ghanatta College of Arts and Designs as a professional painter and a textile designer. Through many years of being pragmatic and experimental, Adusu was able to unearth his own unique style and voice in the art fraternity. Adusu’s style was inspired by the spontaneous patterns of the military camouflage on a black undertone which is his subjective representation of his African descent. The tactile and highly textured impressions of his figures symbolize the algorithm of life’s struggles and experiences, the peaks and troughs which forms our identity. By the use of frazzled brushes, oils or acrylics mixed with modeling paste, Adusu embellishes his canvases with true stories of the people around his vicinity and the African diaspora. Richard Adusu sporadically infuses landscapes at the foregrounds which subjectively serve as mnemonics for his childhood memories. He creates impressions that captures the pure energy, the honesty, and the intensity of his subjects with power rippling through their bodies kinetically. Adusu’s paintings communicate a contemporary Africa in full and bold expressions depicting scenes from history, current culture, political/entertainment and sporting events globally which feature with pride the images of iconic figures in Black history alongside those of ordinary people who are striving towards excellence like families, friends, loved ones and strangers. Politically, he is engrossed in exploring African lives from a perspective of dignity, which is why he frequently portrays leaders, activists, sports icons, actors alongside ordinary people. His valiant effort of employing a sizable canvases permitted him to exhibit his exploration of the African diaspora with a strong visual elements. Richard Adusu’s works has been collected by many galleries, prominent people and high profile personalities both locally and abroad.