Jamaican Cubist – Hilroy Bulgin & Nigerian impressionist – Emmanuel Anaiye

Jamaican Cubist - Hilroy Bulgin

Bulgin’s art is influenced by African art, like the original cubists, taking inspiration from its motif from sculpture, paintings, masks, textiles, and personal decoration. His art is varied. Some are whimsical, others created for pure aesthetic, some entertainment, and some infused with political ideology and everyday social commentary. He has love (I would say obsession) of folklore art and “primitive” (outsider) art.

Dancing Beauty, HIlroy Bulgin, Mixed media acrylic on canvas 18” x 24”

“I don't care about what academia might think or say. I make art because I was born and feel that inner drive to create. The more I create, the more I feel that inner peace inside.”
--Hilroy Bulgin

For him, art has spiritual connectivity; art is therapy for his collectors.

Mother-Father with Child, Hilroy Bulgin, Acrylic on canvas 35” x 53”

Nigerian impressionist – Emmanuel Anaiye

Emmanuel Anaiye artistic expression takes a critical view of social challenges, such as child education, abuse, domestic violence, and cultural issues. “In portraying African women and children, my work explores the varying relationships between facial expression and fine art. I do believe in the saying that the face is a window to a person’s soul, so I create art that means different things to people. In my 2019 painting The Fruit Of Silence a woman is carrying a fruit and the fruit is what the world sees but her mouth is tied and she can't really speak what is in her heart for various reason.”

The Eyes, Emmanuel Anaiye, Acrylic on canvas 48” x 48”

“Art is a means of self-expression. I am a storyteller. Join me on this visual journey because the journey is a reward.”

—Emmanuel Anaiye

Emmanuel uses a variety of materials like sand and newspaper in each project, and consistency is achieved through color combination and style. His varied range of work is linked by recurring formal techniques and through the subject matter. The subject matter of each body of work determines the materials and the style.