Oriana Jemide United Kingdom
Oriana is passionate about the healing power of the arts, wants people to engage with it beyond entertainment. To her ‘Art is not just about aesthetics, it has the power to very literally heal people who engage in it whether as a practice or just through receiving it’. She believes that the art industry can be elitist in nature and plans to be a part of ways of creating more access for everyday
Oriana Jemide is a multidisciplinary creative working within visual arts and creative writing specialising in landscape painting. She is currently focused on combining her love for textiles and landscapes to produce paintings that document daily life. She is interested in exploring what it means to Black outside focusing on the body it is why her figures don’t include features. Influenced by her Nigerian heritage and her love for nature her work sets out to archive the stories of one’s life journeying from childhood to adulthood. Her hope is to develop sensory sets through combining multiple mediums including painting, sculpture, photography and sound.
Artwork
Before the world wakes, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 2023
The search for balance , Acrylic and oil on canvas, 2023
Caress, Acrylic on canvas, 2021
Endless Quest for…Identity, 2021
Endless Quest for…Solitude, 2021
