Komla Letsu Philip (b. 1987, Ho) is a Ghanaian artist currently living and working in Ho, Ghana. Komla's practice is driven by the significant need to document urban lifestyles and culture. Focusing on the power of memories and imagination about representation and identity formation, Philip creates paintings that confront issues surrounding representation to document that which is neglected. He uses bold colors for his subjects, the attire they wear, and the places they inhabit in a very surreal way that cleverly feeds our visual hunger. Bold beautiful and brilliant
works are successfully composed through Komla's practice in a manner too proficient to ignore using his imaginary language developed over the past 10 years of his artistic journey.
In his words, Komla expresses "My greatest inspiration is the innermost satisfaction derived after a quiet time when I take some time off to explore positive energies found within to make paintings that feed the visual need and breed the admiration from people. I translate illusions into reality by using the vocabulary of painting. I use acrylic paints in all my work because it suits my painting themes; I like innovation in
my works because it gives me different opinions every time and my sense of color also adds some genuineness to the paintings. I try to portray what is in me more familiarly.
