Drum Bits

A group of drummers from northern Nigeria is portrayed in this painting.  Umeh uses light shades of secondary colours to emphasize the intensity of their display.  In this near abstraction, he continues to delve into culture and tradition as his main subject in order to give his viewers the ideas, customs and social behaviour, characteristic […]

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artiste Umeh Bede Lagos, Nigeria

Umeh Bede Ifeanyichukwu was born on the 12th of February 1965 in Jos Plateau State, Nigeria. Umeh enrolled into the famous Yaba College of Technology Lagos where he graduated with a Higher National Diploma (HND) in painting. He worked briefly as an illustrator with Arbil, an advertising agency in Bodija Ibadan before retiring into full-time […]

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A group of drummers from northern Nigeria is portrayed in this painting.  Umeh uses light shades of secondary colours to emphasize the intensity of their display.  In this near abstraction, he continues to delve into culture and tradition as his main subject in order to give his viewers the ideas, customs and social behaviour, characteristic of the different regions and tribes in Nigeria.

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