Title: Edge of Silence
Medium: Acrylic & Mixable Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 40 x 80 cm
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Title: Ekundayo
Medium: Oil x Acrylic on Canvas
40x80cm
This painting is named after Mama Janet Ekundayo, a Nigerian philanthropist and humanitarian, whose name means “tears turned to joy”. Beginning in 1969, she opened her home in Isanlu Makutu, Kogi State, to orphaned and abandoned children, raising more than five hundred lives alongside her own five. She was called Olomo Yeye (a mother of many) an acknowledgment of a love that refused to count itself.
Ekundayo is a meditation on love as labor, on motherhood beyond blood, and on resilience shaped by tenderness. It honors a woman whose life transformed grief into joy, and whose legacy continues to live in the children she raised, each one a testament to what it means to be chosen, protected, and allowed to grow.
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