Ona - Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings

"Ona"(in Yoruba) means "road" or "way". Life on earth can be metaphorically refered to as as a journey.
Just like journeys have a beginning and an end so does earthly life.

Roads daily facilitate our journey. Often this happens so naturally that we do not even think about them. Yet a road is a very significant reality and inevitability in our daily deliberations. Some roads are paved and wide, others are dusty and rough, yet others are very narrow.
Each will ultimately lead you to a destination. Ultimately the road or your use of it will come to an end.
This mirrors the reality of life and the fact that we are all on a part of the road or the other as we carry on in our time.
Ona, attempts to draw attention to this reality by looking at roads and compositions that feature them, both representationally and metaphorically.

Ona is the title of my upcoming solo-exhibition of paintings and drawings to be held at Terra Culture in Lagos Nigeria, from May 26 2012. - You may click on an image for larger version:

Ona - near Ogunlana Drive, 2011 - Oil on board. 123 x 81cm.

Pit stop, 2011 - Oil on board. 123 x 81cm

Aje a wa o, 2012 - Oil on board. 123 x 81cm

Awon meji lori ona, 2012 - Oil on board. 81 x 62cm

Girl reading, 2011 - Oil on board. 81 x 62cm

Ona (1) , 2011 - Oil on board. 123 x 81cm

Eti okun, 2012 - Oil on board. 123 x 81cm

Ona (2), 2012 - Oil on board. 123 x 81cm

McNeil Road Yaba, 2012 - Oil on board. 81 x 62cm

Onigele pupa, 2012 - Oil on board. 123 x 81cm

Onidiri meta, 2012 - Oil on board. 123 x 81cm

Road in Old Yaba, 2011 - Oil on board. 123 x 81cm

Ona (3), 2012 - Oil on board. 123 x 81cm

Onigele, 2012 - Oil on board. 123 x 81cm

Figure studies in oil (3), 2012 - Oil on board. 81 x 62cm

Figure studies in oil (4), 2012 - Oil on board. 123 x 81cm

Figure studies in oil (2), 2011 - Oil on board. 81 x 62cm

Groundnut seller, 2012 - Oil on board. 61 x 36cm

On the road, 2012 - Oil on board. 61 x 36cm

Olororo, 2012 - Oil on board. 123 x 81cm

African women (2), 2012 - Oil on board. 123 x 81cm

Figure studies in oil (1), 2011 - Oil on board. 81 x 62cm

Meeting, 2011 - Oil on board. 81 x 62cm

The road, 2011 - Watercolour. 73 x 52cm

African women, 2011 - Oil on board. 123 x 81cm