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Patience Clara Nelson-Cole

CONCEPTUAL ELEMENTS IN MY PAINTINGS

My landscape paintings express the thought and personality of my village called "Ughelli", in Bendel state of my Nigeria. It is a traditional village, rich in values and culture. It is what we see that determines our lifestyles and our culture. Even for the blind person, it is the reaction to what the non-blind people around he/she sees that determines his/her consciousness of the world. Fundamental to human cultural experience is visual experience. Visual expression is central to human cultural experience.

The "Ughelli" village is in the coastal region of Nigeria surrounded by rivers, forests, trees and hills. The houses are built of clay, sometimes called "mud-huts", landmass. I got involved with the different fascinating shapes of huts, landmass, calmness of the village with special effects of the cloudy skies. Some of these mud-huts had already collapsed but people still lived in them. 

These ideas and special feelings are then translated on canvas in visual form with a rich variety of vibrating warm and cool colors, sometimes bold brush strokes or soft blended to achieve the desired rhythm of nature.

Patience Nelson-Cole received her B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of Benin.

Her works are in private collections, museums, governmental agencies, both State and National level. Commission jobs for State governments, private homes and organizations.

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