Joseph Ntensibe

"I speak of Africa and golden joys" (Shakespeare, "Henry IV")

...and who better than Joseph Ntensibe with his passionate response to nature and well loved places could speak through his paintings of the "golden joys" of this wonderful continent?

He uses landscape to express his own complex image of a worldly paradise in which nature has a strongly symbolic role.

Light and dark are carefully contrasted to form artistic patterns and trees, leave shrubs, and animals have the appearance of fairylike shapes drifting in a whirl of colours. Many of Ntensibe's works have indeed quite a magical quality: water plants floating in a clear pool amidst the mysterious darkness of the tropical forest, the rainbow on a bird's wing; the eerie creatures of the night, peering at us from the canvas; the uncontrolled strength of a rain storm on the bush, all these images bring us to a land of wonder and enchantment, where dream and reality coexist in perfect harmony.

Exhibitions:

Artworks (Click the pictures to see an enlargement):

1. "The Carriers" (1994) - Oil / Canvas
2. "Bouquet" (1994) - Oil/  Canvas