This splendid painting was acquired directly from Adam Mwansa, an extraordinary painter and the finest draughtsman in all Zambia. Comfortable with charcoal, watercolor, oil, and acrylic paint, these days he executes his work at the intersection of representation and abstraction. And how beautiful it is: a piece like “Praise Singers” sings not just for the unexpectedly vibrant composition but also for Mwansa’s expert handling of color. Mwansa, who is based in the remote Zambian town of Luanshya, trained as an art teacher at Lusaka’s Evelyn Hone College between 1984 and 1986. In 1993 he held a studio residency at the Wimbledon School of Art in London and, a year later, studied graphic design at The Hague in the Netherlands. This is the first of at least two paintings by Mwansa that will be domiciled in the Roduza Collection.
