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 reverie, carrying symbols of affection, wisdom, and desire. In I Bring Flowers, a graceful woman journeys with her blooms, a tangible offering of love to both the viewer and her imagined lover.
Boadi’s work, by contrast, is vibrant, direct, and urgent. His palette is electric, his storytelling forceful. Drawing on scenes from Accra as well as deeper explorations of longing, hope, and desire, he creates compositions that almost pulse with energy. In Desire, the face of a woman becomes a dazzling bouquet — colour, passion, and movement fused into one powerful image of yearning.
Different in style, yet connected in spirit, both artists use flowers — one overtly, the other symbolically — to express the blossoming of love, warmth, and energetic emotion. Together, they create a visual symphony.
