SenaTues

"SenaTuesday is a voice of geometric lyricism. His work is both fiction and reflection - a rich visual dialogue between form, memory, and identity. He refers to his style as contemporary abstraction: a language of shapes and collages that speak of Ghanaian everyday life, traditional color palettes, and personal mythology.

He doesn’t just paint what he sees; he paints what life whispers between its silences. His compositions are built with emotional geometry - shapes carefully chosen, layered and collaged to echo the textures of culture, time, and transformation.

Beyond aesthetic, his art is a rhythm - "beyond melodies and beyond words," as he describes it. It is a space of invention and reinterpretation, where classical influences meet bold, modern expression.

SenaTuesday belongs to a rare breed of artists who embrace contemporary practice with the soul of a classicist. His work invites viewers not only to look, but to feel - to inhabit the world he reimagines, one canvas at a time."

MEET

SenaTues

Kwabena Senanu Alexander Bampoe (b. 1986), known artistically as SenaTuesday, was born in the Volta Region of Ghana. He currently lives and works in Accra, in the neighborhood of Mamprobi, along Nii Saka Street.

Raised in one of Accra’s most vibrant yet challenging communities, SenaTuesday found early refuge in art. It was his mother who first noticed his innate gift - a sensitivity of hand and vision - and encouraged him to nurture it. That seed would later become a sanctuary.

In 2012, he enrolled at the Ghanatta College of Art and Design, graduating in 2014. Life, however, took him on a detour. Circumstances pulled him away from painting, but never far from creativity. In 2018, driven by a deep inner calling, he returned to the canvas with renewed devotion.

Every setback, he says, has been part of the journey - shaping the emotional architecture of his work. His story is not of linear progression, but of resilient return. He paints not just to express, but to transcend.

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