Abisola Kuburat Gbadamosi’s work focuses on the interplay between light and colour, spirituality, everyday life and loss. The use of watercolour gives her works a distinct and noticeable style which she uses to create ethereal portraits, translating her different states of consciousness.
Abisola Kuburat Gbadamosi is a visual artist from Nigeria. From Ibadan, Oyo state, she grew up spending most of her formative years between Lagos and London. Gbadamosi’s work focuses on the interplay between light and colour, spirituality, everyday life and loss. Having experienced the loss of both her parents at a relatively young age, she turned to art as a form of therapy, a way of processing her innermost thoughts and working through conflicting emotions, which she struggled to vocalise.
The use of watercolour gives her works a distinct and noticeable style which she uses to create ethereal portraits, successfully translating her different states of consciousness. She believes in the spirituality of life and the ultimate divine source beyond the physical realm. She believes Heaven can be very experienced on earth and is inquisitive in the different realms our consciousness can take us.
For Gbadamosi, her art changes as her mind moves from one state of consciousness to the next. She understands how the mind is one of the most potent tools we inhabit as human beings and how it can determine the entire trajectory of our lives. Gbadamosi has always attempted to find the balance between her traditional African culture and the concept of being her true authentic self. Her work is tied up in the present but also her past and future experiences. She operates on multiple frequencies.
At first, her work came out of a necessity to express her pain. Still, she soon realised that her art was merely the tool used to direct her towards her truth (her higher self), and she aims for individuals who experience her work to be challenged to look inwards and do the same.