Eghosa Henry was born 1981, In Benin City, Edo State. I was trained at FamousArt School, Auchi Polytechnic Auchi in 2006 in painting and General Art. Aftergraduation my love Art and sense of certainty of purpose never diminished in mychosen creative path as I have continued to practice.My Artistic taste on colour also made me to explore on other field of practice i.eInterior/exterior painting design. (National Diploma) Painting and General Art 2003 and H.N.D (Higher National Diploma) Painting 2006,Federal Polytechnic Auchi.SKILLS- Palette Knife: - Fine-tune Palette Knife Painting - Colour Intersection _ Architectural wall painting/design _ Monumental sculptural modeling Exhibitions _ Final year painting exhibition Auchi (2006)_ Pat kairo undergraduate exhibition Lagos (2006)_ International Art Expo Lagos (2009)- Blossom (2009)- “Nigeria VS Spain” Organized by Embassy of Spain (2009)- “Treasures of Africa” Organized by Embassy of Arab Republic of Egypt.- “Nigeria @ 50 patriot” portrait award Lagos 2010- “Crossed perspective” Abuja 2011.- Out of the Box out of the frame. Enugu 2013.
- New Conversations: Modern and Contemporary Art (2014).- Art-Expo New York 2015.- UNITED NATION headquarter Art exhibition, New York (2015).- Buddy Bear painting exhibition, by Germany Embassy Abuja (2016).
EXPERIENCE-
Visual Artist: full-time studio artist. 2006 – till date - Interior / Exterior painting design - Museum project execution on bout interior / exterior painting, sculptureinstallation and design, on Aba women Revolt of 1929. 2014 / 2015.
AWARDS
- 2010 2nd Prize Nigeria @ 50 patriot portrait award Lagos- 2011 1st Prize “Crossed perspective “Organized by Embassy of Spain,Abuja- 2012 Consolation Prize. Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library “National Art Competition” Ogun State.- 2013 1st Prize Life in City Art festival (LIMCAF) Enugu - 2016 2nd Prize Buddy Bear painting, Federal Republic of GermanyEmbassy Abuja.
ARTIST STATEMENT An Artist life is a futuristic abstraction, colour don’t have to be rigid but anApproach to Culture. It is my feeling that our way of life “Culture” should be generally involved andappreciated for a better societal growth in all part of the region. My Journal through Art: has always been an expressive form towards encouragingindigenous local product and life-style, using my Artistic tools to reflect theAesthetics moment and importance of our culture.I create art simply for people to recognize the importance of their origin andmaking them feel engaged, happy mood, reflective or joyful of their background inrespective of time, place and period. My imaginary sight in life is full ofabundantly wealthy vision gotten from beautiful creation made by God. I alsorealize that; life is short and what we do or contribute determine our future, for ourfuture to be sure we need to preserve, by visualizing and educating it in any form.