ARTIST Profile AMAKAI QUAYE Amakai Quaye is a dynamic contemporary Artist, who was born on the 3rd of April 1984 at Asre in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana, West Africa. After his formal education, he attended GHANATTA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN from 1998 – 2002, where he trained as an Artist and also specialized in painting and was also adjudged the overall best student in his graduating class. Due to His prospects and potentials, he later became an Art Tutor in the same Institution, handling STILL LIFE and NATURE DRAWING from 2002 – 2012 after which he resigned into full time practice. Amakai is an impressionist, whose paintings consists of vibrant colours, movements, expressions and textures which he freely executes with witty palette knife strokes. His art works are mostly figurative, with themes bordering around Jazz music, fashion and everyday life. He also paints Abstracts, Portraits and landscapes. He is also a Digital illustrator and a 2D Animator working with so many Book Publishing Companies and Cooperate bodies, putting together educational materials for Schools etc. Amakai does not believe in monotony or binding himself with a style, but rather being dynamic, innovative and having a uniquely excellent identity. He also believes that nature has solutions to all situations.