About: Pee Bee
Website: http://colorfultimes.com
Profile: Writer, editor and marketing specialist who sat on The Power Inquiry. Former editor and CEO of the consumer lifestyle magazine, Drum (UK), and author of five plays published for an academic audience by Alexander Street Press, USA. Recipient of business and writing awards, including prestigious accolades such as advising British government, BBC radio and TV commentator, and invitation to meet Queen Elizabeth II in 2007. Currently works as a communications professional, creating contagious ideas to help great brands change the conversation to their advantage, across the entire Central and West African region.
Posts by Pee Bee:
Judging by their standards, four games in the World Cup is doing rather well for the England football team. An inquiry now can only be asking for more of the same lame excuses, and we already rather like this reworking of the Jay-Z classic, 99 PROBLEMS as a new anthem for the England football squad.
Every roll, dimple, and scar…is a marker of my life…wonderful nights with my lover, late night ice cream parties with my friends, and the birth of my children. — Edeyemi, daughter of Oshun, 52, Executive Assistant – African American
Acclaimed as the pre-eminent neo-impressionist in his native Ghana, Victor Odoi’s oil paintings evoke the fishing villages and market scenes along the coast of Accra, the capital city.
Larry Otoo’s paintings express the relationship between Western and African art, and he refers to himself as “a contemporary traditionalist,” since much of work is inspired by the familiar daily activities of Ghanaian life.
Kobina Nyarko is one of Ghana’s premier young contemporary artists. Born in Takoradi, Ghana, in 1972, much of Nyarko’s recent work explores the symbolism of fish in paintings that feature numerous tiny fish on often large-scale canvases.
Born in India, Madhumati is a highly accomplished artist and musician. She graduated with a first class degree in Fine Art from Visva Bharati University, Santinikentan, in 1998. Her work is now collected around the world.
Ghose, as Peter Ngugi is popularly known, was born in Thika in Kenya. Although he has continued to live in his native country, he is becoming increasing well-known outside of Kenya for his unique style, which he describes as “a fusion of surreal and contemporary art.”
Colorfultimes.com, in partnership with AFRIKART (London), are pleased to announce a 3-day exhibition of world-class contemporary paintings by a selection of artists from India, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda and Ghana in the heart of London’s Covent Garden.
Robert Aryeetey, Gabriel Eklou and Stephen Gwoktcho may be three African painters with very different styles but they share converging themes.
Where other West African painters can remain trapped by cultural baggage, Kofi Agorsor is never weighed down. He actually sets out to upset preconceptions and trigger thought.
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