Cameroonian painter Marc Padeu says that being an African artist means "being the heir to an extraordinarily rich history." But he also says it can mean "living and working on a continent where artistic infrastructure is virtually nonexistent."
Padeu's work often takes inspiration from religious paintings from the European Renaissance — but reimagines them, depicting people in Cameroon's cocoa plantations. London gallery Larkin Durey is currently holding an exhibition of Padeu's latest work.
Oliver Durey, the gallery's director, said: "Mark's work is timeless. His visual style is simultaneously very contemporary but also deeply rooted in that old tradition — so there is something extremely fresh about it."
Except from Robbie Griffith's interview with Marc Padeu for NPR. See the full article here: Marc Padeu NPR interview
