African original acrylic canvas/painting: Forceful Mums

                  

Bernard Mensah started schooling at the Fanchenebra Metropolitan Authority primary and junior secondary school in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, Ghana. He later attended the College of Arts and Industry also in Kumasi where he acquired substantial artistic design skills that has since helped him to become what he is today: a prolific and prominent painter, both in Ghana and now moreso across continents.

Bernard has been able to paint since he was a young child. He used to harness his imagination to create images in his mind's eye. He creates to portray how he visualises the natural world and believes that creativity is a form of religion.  

Bernard's family are the centre of his life. He is one of three children. His Mother is a trader and has always been very encouraging by providing him with all the materials he ever needed to create his paintings. Bernard believes that his family are his greatest inspiration. 

Bernard also gains inspiration from the satisfaction he derives after a reflective period; when he explores positive ways of enhancing his work. To the praise of his viewers, he translates reality into illusion and vice versa through the power of his artwork. He generally uses canvas and acrylic paints in all the work that he does. Asked why, Mensah replies "I like working with acrylic because it suits my type of painting; I like innovation in my works because it gives me different opinions every time and my sense of colouring also adds great character to the paintings."

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