Lynette yiadom boakye biography of michael
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Lynette yiadom boakye biography of michael
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
British painter and writer (born 1977)
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977) is a British painter and writer, of Ghanaian heritage. She is best known for her portraits of imaginary subjects, or ones derived from found objects, which are painted in muted colours.
Her work has contributed to the renaissance in painting the Black figure. Her paintings often are presented in solo exhibitions.[2]
Early life and career
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye was born in London, UK where she currently lives and works.[3] Her parents worked as nurses for the National Health Service after emigrating from Ghana in the 1960s.[4] Yiadom-Boakye describes herself as "a boring child--good grades, no mischief--but also quite good at living in my head, using my imagination as an escape."[5] As a senior in high school, she took an art foundations course as an experiment and afterwards gave up her previous intentions to become an optician to become an