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As we continue to live our days in partial lockdown it’s easy to imagine a getaway by the sea.  To see boats gently bobbing in the ocean, and to smell the saltwater as it laps against the shore is at once both mesmerizing and tranquil.  Emmanuel Owusu Dartey’s watercolor paintings can transport you to such a place.  The renowned Ghanaian artist was the head of the Department of Painting and Sculpture at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ashanti, Ghana.  He died in August 2018.

Similar to his American counterpart, Lois Mailou Jones, who painted watercolor sketches of her beloved Martha’s Vineyard, Dartey’s paintings presented unobstructed views of the seaside community of his birth and market scenes embodying the ebb and flow of rural life.  His work is said to be both ‘stubbornly elusive and transparent' at the same time.

Patricia Andrews-Keenan