Painting
Duafe
Duafe/ wooden comb is the Adinkra symbol of beauty, love, care, femininity, patience, and prudence.
Painting
Jubilee
Using soft pastel and acrylic paint, I depict a vibrant scene of empowered women to foster attitudes of care in the community.
Painting
Me in the Bathtub
Portrait of the artist in a bathtub with a copy of Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".
Painting
Sankofa
Sankofa is an Adinkra Symbol meaning "go back and get" or "to retrieve". For this piece, I recycled the withered rose petals from a bouquet my mom gifted me last year.
Painting
Self Portrait / I Love Roses
A self portrait painted with soft pastels on paper. I love to depict myself in various real and imaginary backgrounds. Here, I am standing on a rose in the sky. I chose this composition because roses are my favorite type of flower.
Drawing
Self Portrait with Tea
A self portrait drawing based on a picture I took of myself last Spring drinking tea and wearing a flower crown.
Work by
Jasmin-Nicole Amoako
Drawing and Painting
“My current body of figurative and abstract work serves as a vehicle for accessing ancestral memories, and my dreams which yield growth, structure and forward movement. I apply African and Western...” [More]