by Clement Mmaduako Nwafor.
Clement Mmaduakor Nwafor is an award-winning and self-taught Nigerian artist who mixes collage and oil paint to create colourful, mixed-media paintings.
In Ankara and Beauty Series 2, Nwafor produces a masterful rendering of the gele, a Nigerian headwrap made of Ankara fabric, highlighting the purity and grace of the portrait. The Ankara fabric, both as an object and as a metaphor, is his means of showing the beauty of Africa to the world.
Puzzle Dimensions:
48 x 34 centimetres
18.9 x 13.4 inches