ABOUT

My name is Helen Ifeagwu and I am a visual artist and journalist, creating artwork that comments on the interconnection between humans, nature and technology.
My work is an illustrated meditation on the natural order, executed across multiple mediums such as oil paint and ink.

From ideation to completion, I often lean into my journalistic eye pull ideas my environment and formulate a locus of analysis I want to convey and translate into artwork. I believe the primitivism of nature and complexity of technology do not have to be mutually exclusive. Both exist in their own right; they are things to be admired and which humans interact with daily. The visual identity of my work emerges from a dense mesh of qualities I have found are homologous between the three concepts.

Every piece takes on a life of its own. I focus on organising an amalgamation of multiple symbols that should spark new thoughts in the viewer's subconscious mind, using my art as a channel of communication. I invite the viewer to share my discovery of elusive links between the entities in my drawings, as I poetisize and crystallize them into a series of works that bear testament to the idea of unity.

Perhaps in a way, my visual lexicon suggests there is more to the world than meets the eye. My works typify metaphysical questions which aim to open up new pathways of thought.
It takes months for the completion of my artwork. The intricate handiwork of my artworks requires a careful consideration of each detail I want to bring forth to stimulate contextual meaning for you.