International Edition Eyes (Blaise Afrique)

Born in 1993 Bui -Division, North West Region of Cameroon Artist Vernyuy Blaise Vernyuy began drawing as a child. After primary and secondary education, he did a four year diploma program in drawing and sculpting under the tutelage of Brazilian arts teacher Paulo Lemos, who was in Cameroon on a six years missionary stay.

He then proceeded in a three years Bachelor’s degree program in visual arts and Arts history in the University of Bamenda. Graduating as the best graduating student of his University, and being the best in Plastic Arts he decided to start up a studio in his home town.

Presently he owns and runs his Personal Arts studio in the city of Bamenda- North West region of Cameroon where he works and teaches young aspiring artists. He presently focuses on creating Acrylic paintings on canvas that he shows on his Facebook page “Blaise Afrique Arts Gallery”. He markets across the globe.

He has exhibited in the French Institute, The American Embassy where he showed his work all through the year 2018, The National Arts Festival and has done shows in the American school in Yaounde and all around the country. He has done some shows in his home town and done many works shops to teach the young.

In a time when the entire continent of Africa is Clamoring for Africans to tell their own stories as a means of shunting the colonial narrative about Africa and Africans, his abstract paintings are an embodiment of African masks, figurines, lines, colors, forms and African geometric symbols. With all these he is able to capture the African ancestral spirit which catapults a viewer to prehistoric and antiquity days of African ancestors.  These elements are arranged either to tell an African story or to materialize his personal reflections. His work has an ardent complexity yet there is a noble simplicity that enables the viewer to interpret every painting with ease.

His mission as an artist has been to tell African stories of the past, present and future using an African image. He keeps contributing in telling African stories with an African image, motive and from the perspective of an African. He seeks to be established as one of the 21st century masters of Afro Abstract figurative.