Location: Nigeria
THE BIOGRAPHY OF ADEYEMI RAMON OMOLAJA
Mr. Adeyemi Ramon Omolaja is a professional painting artist with years of experience in different painting works to exhibit natural and environmental activities and occurrences around him.
Adeyemi Ramon was born in Lagos, Nigeria on the 15th of January , 1978. He graduated from Ore-ofe primary school, Egbe ,Lagos . He proceeded to Muslim College, Egbe, Lagos for his Secondary School Certificate. He attended The Polytechnic Ibadan and bagged National Diploma (ND)in Art and Design and Higher National Diploma (HND) in Fine and Applied Art.
At the completion of his academic pursuit, he joined the National Gallery of Art , Nigeria and rose to the Principal Technical Officer and spearheaded the designing of various projects for beautification of the state.
The culture where he grew up also influenced his development into a professional artist because of many natural beautification and creatures around his environment which he also wants to showcase to the entire world via his painting. It has always been his dream to show his world to the entire world and thus improves him. The dedication and creativity made him standout in painting and he will persist in exposing himself to further development.
Artist: Adeyemi Ramon Omolaja
Title: Anchor
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimension: 90 x 120 cm
Year: 2019
Description of the Painting
Anchor has its root in African tradition. It is an oil painting that beautifully depicts a major factor in stabilizing home, family and by extension the society in African traditional and cultural setting. Details attention was paid to every aspect of the painting - the human figures, the food, the stool made of offcut from Palm trees, the rubber slippers and the setting. All objects in the painting are artistical representation of unalloyed satisfaction and longing, beauty and contentment in addition to assured laughter, and stability in it's simple and purest form. They say "the way to a man's heart is good food". Good food is not enough, the manner of presentation also count.
Artist: Adeyemi Ramon Omolaja
Title: Anchor
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimension: 90 x 120 cm
Year: 2019
Description of the Painting
Anchor has its root in African tradition. It is an oil painting that beautifully depicts a major factor in stabilizing home, family and by extension the society in African traditional and cultural setting. Details attention was paid to every aspect of the painting - the human figures, the food, the stool made of offcut from Palm trees, the rubber slippers and the setting. All objects in the painting are artistical representation of unalloyed satisfaction and longing, beauty and contentment in addition to assured laughter, and stability in it's simple and purest form. They say "the way to a man's heart is good food". Good food is not enough, the manner of presentation also count.
Artist: Adeyemi Ramon. Title: Waiting for customers. Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 91x52 cm. Year: 2017.
Description of the painting
“WAITING FOR THE CUSTOMERS’’:
“Punctuality is the soul of business’’ This quote perfectly describe the event depicted in the painting, waiting for the customer.
The shoe repairers are seeing sited at their usual spot early in the morning waiting to provide services for those going to offices whose shoes need to be polished or amended. The services they provide ranges from shoe shining to repairing of foot wears. The plastic basket before them is the tool box containing all they need to render services.
From the expression on their faces, it shows that they are full of expectations. Generally, the painting depicts people at their duty post involving in buying and selling as the saying in our local parlance goes: “ No food for a lazy man’ ’The painting projects hard work, hope and persistence.
Artist: Adeyemi Ramon Omolaja
Title: PA. JAY
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimension: 91 x 121 cm
Year: 2018
Description of the Painting
"There is dignity in labour". The essence of this statement is vividly represented in this oil painting. "The Gardener" was captured enthusiastically posed with his lawn mower proudly sitted in an environment that has probably become his second nature. Surrounding him is one of the best scene in nature where different species of plants intertwined and formed an unbroken relationship.
Artist: Adeyemi Ramon Omolaja
Title: PA. JAY
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimension: 91 x 121 cm
Year: 2018
Description of the Painting
"There is dignity in labour". The essence of this statement is vividly represented in this oil painting. "The Gardener" was captured enthusiastically posed with his lawn mower proudly sitted in an environment that has probably become his second nature. Surrounding him is one of the best scene in nature where different species of plants intertwined and formed an unbroken relationship.
“Omi Obi ( The Kolanut River)”
Artist: Adeyemi Ramon Omolaja
Title: Omi Obi (The Kolanut River)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimension: 76 x 105 cm
Year: 2018
Description of the painting
This painting depicts one of the mystery of nature. " Omi Obi" is a river located in Rore town in Omu Aran, Kwara state in Nigeria. It's name was derived as a result of the surrounding kolanut trees that formed shade over it.
The river has both historical and spiritual connotation to the people of the town. The historical aspect might be a fiction with spiritual significance that transcends human understanding. The captivating point in this painting is the different out look of the same river which was separated by a log and they never flow into each other. The log also serves as a pedestrian that the people stand on while fetching from the clean side of the river into their basins purposely for domestic use.
The painting portrayed the lowest rank of rural society in sympathetic light. The artistic rendition expressed the interaction of people with nature and their environment.
Artist: Adeyemi Ramon Omolaja
Title: Kara Kata
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimension: 60 x 84 cm
Year: 2018
Description of the Painting
Kara kata is a painting in oil that aptly capture the process of buying and selling in the market place.
The buyer/seller relationship is a common experience in our market. Carefully wrapped in this painting is the power of influence from the seller in agreement with the power of bargaining from the buyer.
“Anchor”
“Waiting for customers”
“PA. JAY”
“Kara Kata”
