ABOUT THE ARTIST

Beverley Ama is a British-Ghanaian artist and photographer based in London, England.

Influenced by her father Kofi's artistic inclinations, Ama has fond memories of her and her father cross-legged on the carpet, pencils sprawled around, sketching and doodling away. Ama's artistic abilities took root in her very early years and through to her formative years, where she was quickly classified as gifted and talented.

A true experimentalist in her fine art, Ama especially enjoys working with mixed media: she masterfully merges the boldness of acrylic and the tentativeness of watercolour with the gentle - yet assured - detail of coloured pencils. She embraces the challenge in bringing together multiple mediums to work harmoniously, all in a single series or piece. You can see this in many of her fine art works, including The Palm Project and one of her more recent pieces, La Flor Morada.

When it comes to her photography, there is no limit to what Beverley Ama is inspired by. She aims to capture the essence and depth of the environment in the way that she composes and colours the photograph in order to prompt an array of emotions in the viewer. You can see this in one of her favourite series', Homecoming - taken in her family hometown of Winneba, Ghana - where the collection evokes a sense of stillness, longing and yearning 'to find comfort'. A separate but complementary piece, Night at the Museum - a piece characterised by shadows and an intense sombreness - captures the eerie, caliginous nature of the history and relationship between the content of the photograph and the space in which it is held.