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Therefore, Africans regard nature in terms of its usefulness or harmfulness to man, and how man can use nature. He makes use of nature, turning parts of it into food, medicine, sculptural pieces, paintings and some other areas of nature are used by man ritually. At the same time, man is able to speak to it, to listen to it, learn from it and have a direct relationship with the world around him. Thus, man puts the universe at his own disposal - by physical, mystical and religious means.

Above all, I believe so much in African traditional religious which does not separate art from religion. As a painter, I use my art (as media) to express my feelings about my culture and it is expressed even in the way we walk, laugh, or cry. The original values that make up black culture and are fundamentally the sense of communion between the visible and the invisible, man, nature and God; the sense of analogical images, which expresses this communion and finally, the sense of rhythm. 

But this is not all. Man supported by his values, his culture, is able to produce the plan and this plan has as its objectives the development of man. That is to say, development of man. That is to say, development of all his faculties in life in relation to the values of national culture.

CONCEPTUAL ELEMENTS IN MY PAINTINGS 

My landscape of 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, forest, 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.

The landscape paintings portray solitude - no human beings, it is a special feeling - man has gone in search of his daily bread.   

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