Samuel Prophask

"As an artist, I am passionate about colors, which drives me to work with a variety of media such as oil paint, acrylic paint, oil and chalk pastels, color pencils, and charcoal. My preferred working surface is cotton canvas. Additionally, I incorporate found objects like plastics and newspapers into my creations, using recycled art to address environmental and sustainability issues.

My works bear traces of Ghanaian cultural elements and integrate aspects from other cultures around the globe to advocate for intercultural unity. I believe that everything on earth is interconnected, and humans are part of that equation. Through my art, I strive to portray justness, sincerity, authenticity, and dynamism, merging cultural elements to create a transcultural and transnational dialogue."

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Samuel Prophask

Samuel Prophask Asamoah is a creative, versatile, and detail-oriented artist from Ghana. He has extensive knowledge in painting, sculpture, and most art genres. His passion for art emerged at a tender age while drawing and colouring many of the things he observed in nature. Asamoah was trained at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and technology in Kumasi-Ghana. He has a unique way of expressing his artistic ideas in abstract, realism, and surrealism.

Asamoah is passionate about colours. As a result, he works with diverse media such as oil paint, acrylic paint, oil and chalk pastels, colour pencils, and charcoal with a cotton canvas as his preferred working surface. He also uses found objects such as plastics, newspapers, et cetera in the form of recycled art to address environmental and sustainability issues. His works bear traces of Ghanaian cultural elements as well as elements from other cultures around the globe to advocate for intercultural unity. According to Asamoah, “everything on earth is interconnected, and humans are part of that equation". He believes in justness, sincerity, authenticity, as well as dynamism, hence, portrays these through the merger of cultures. This makes Asamoah’s art transcultural and transnational.

Although Asamoah's creative expressions, as well as the philosophy, were influenced by Ghanaian traditional, and modernist art, his themes reflect contemporary socio-cultural issues. According to Asamoah, “art must record both tangible and intangible facets of life as far as culture is concerned”. He also stated that “Audience should not be distanced from the work but must rather be part of the work”, and one can experience that emotional immersion when looking at his works.

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