Harbor Boats, Doha
James NyikaWatercolor painting on Paper New
Ready to frame
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Signed on front
2020
16" h x 20" w |0 lbs. 1 oz.
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"Doha has an amazing skyline, further enhanced each evening by the beautiful violet skies typical of the Arabian sunset," says artist James Nyika. "With its modern neon lighting, it can look like a mini-Las Vegas from a distance. Probably much more interesting though is the juxtaposition of the old and the new - as seen in this picture. The old fishing boats typical of its former pearl economy still exist and we capture them contrasted with the changes that have occurred over the years."
The artwork image is 15.25" x 19" on paper that measures 16" x 20".
James Nyika
Upper Marlboro, Maryland
Artist James Nyika paints the glowing atmosphere of cities across the world. As a child growing up in Kenya, he found art materials at the student bookshop and also borrowed just about every art history volume from the British Council library in Nairobi. "I checked out the same books over and over just to stare at the art, to try and understand how it was created," says James. With family encouragement to study engineering, James moved to the U.S. and immersed himself in science studies at Boston University. Several years after embarking on a tech career, he set a goal to create at least one painting a week, never throwing away any works and learning as much as possible in his off hours. Today, James still balances his full-time career designing large software systems with his prolific output as a painter. "Painting is a great antidote to the regularity of a computing profession and I really value it for the uncertainty that it brings - something frowned upon when writing code."