Sunset, Dhaka
James NyikaWatercolor painting on Paper New
Ready to frame
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front
2020
14.75" h x 22.25" w |0 lbs. 1 oz.
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"Dhaka, Bangladesh is a capital city with skies laden with sandy particulates which give its evenings and sunsets a beautiful orange glow," explains artist James Nyika. "This work imagines such an evening as seen from a rooftop with the distant sun setting and fully visible as the brightest orb in the sky."
The artwork image is 13.88" x 21.13" on paper that measures 14.75" x 22.25".
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."