Profile of Rikki Wemega-Kwawu, African artist, African paintings

Rikki Wemega-Kwawu is an internationally renowned contemporary Ghanaian artist, born on February 3, 1959 in the city of Sekondi, Ghana. A devoted painter since 1981, he is largely self-taught, though he is an alumni of the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine. He has participated in many group exhibitions and his work can be found across the world in private and public collections, including the Dutch Artotheek.

Wemega-Kwawu is, in his own words, "a very eclectic painter, swinging easily between pictorial and abstract themes, without any qualms." A thorough and interesting statement written by the artist can be found at the website of African Encounters, his representatives on the west coast.

Wemega-Kwawu's work is characterized by a synthesis of the past and the present. He incorporates a plethora of ancient African symbols into his very modern, aesthetically appealing, large-scale paintings.

His painting Ashanti Saga is included in the exhibition "Artists Speak" at the San Diego Museum of Man, on display from May 2007 through February 28, 2008.

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