Maxwell Boadi’s new works feel like a homecoming. After a period marked by restraint, quiet surfaces, flattened spaces, and deliberate stillness, Boadi returns to the canvas with renewed energy and conviction. Colour surges back into his practice. Movement re-emerges. Layers build upon layers, reasserting the physical pleasure of paint and the emotional force of gesture.
Though their approaches to art differ, Kenyan artist Peter Elungat and Ghanaian artist Maxwell Boadi share a poetic fascination with love, beauty, and human connection. Elungat’s paintings are operatic in scale and emotion — dreamscapes where women appear as ethereal, heavenly figures. Often an amalgam of muses, they inhabit a whimsical space between reality and
‘Hairdo’ by Sam Ovraiti and ‘Beloved’ by Maxwell Boadi Two very different styles.One is so gentle it eases your soul. Ovraiti, a master of the subtle gesture, creates a painting that melds the women and their background, creating a rich, mellow interaction. Boadi’s Father figure is aggressive and bold dominating the picture with his desire.