Glimpses of April Turkish Marble Painting Workshop and Exhibition

24th to 29th, April witnessed participation of about twenty-five visual artist from Lagos, Ibadan, Benin, Cross-river and Zaria (self), including some members of the Turkish community in the UFUK/OYASAF MARBLE ART PAINTING WORKSHOP and EXHIBITION held in Lagos themed ART FOR PEACE.

Artists resumed at 10am and closed at 4pm throughout the duration of the workshop with teaching materials and cost of facilitation borne by the organizers including lunch. Tugay Yalcin an Artist and Executive Director, Nile University of Nigeria, Abuja was the facilitating artist.

Below are my contribution to the exercise and pictures from the Workshop:

"Embrace Peace"

"Embrace Peace" is a stylised image of a warrior riding swiftly over a rocky terrain and suddenly saw a white dove landed on the tip of his drawn spear.

"Jaw-jaw and not War-war"

"Jaw-jaw and not War-war" is a comment on the need for peaceful dialogue against mounting weapons of destruction

"Council of Peace-makers"

"Council of Peace-makers" is an abstract expressionism. The orange represent the aggravated group while the white ares represent the group seeking for peaceful dialogue.

"Yellow and Red Tulips"

Tulip has significant meaning to the Turks. I am yet to find out what it represents to them. Hope to find out soon. Let me know if you have anything to contribute please. My e-mail address is: oluseyi.ajayi@gmail.com

Cross-Section of Participants with the Facilitating Artist

The participants had to take photograph after the exercise on the third day. My humble self is fourth from the right.

Cross-Section of Participants with Omooba Yemisi Shyllon

Marble painting exercise by a participant

TugayYalcin (Facilitating Artist) 

It was indeed an uplifting creative exercise for me and a very much needed educative recess from my academic escapades in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

Thank you for being there always. God bless you.