Sobre el Artista

Esan Samuel Ogooluwa is a Contemporary visual and Creative artist, teacher, songwriter, singer, programmer and multimedia producer from Osun state Nigeria. He had his Nigerian certificate in Education from the federal college of education, abeokuta and also holds a Diploma in Desktop Publishing (DDP) from Davsoft concept ogun state Nigeria in 2013. Although he started drawing at an early age around 6-7 years old at the basic level of education as anything that has to do with drawing naturally fascinates him. He practiced drawing as a hobby up till his secondary level of education and was known for it among colleagues, teachers and counterparts. He started Visual and Creative arts as a full career in the early part of 2017 almost immediately after the completion of his program at the college. At this time he was still trying to carve a niche for himself in the world of art as he practiced with several available materials just to get better at his craft and this made him discover some new and great outcomes in his drawing which made him more determined to get better His art turned a new leaf when he came across an online social media called Instagram. He had never thought there was more to drawing and art generally than the normal sketching that lasts not more than 5 minutes and also never thought anything good can come out of art as a career due to the orientation that art was a poor and unprofitable venture. This was what initiated his pursuit of a career in science by studying biology and mathematics at the college He discovered a Genre of art in the later part of 2017 called Hyperrealism when he came across several greatly talented artist from around the world on Instagram some of which included Kelvin Okafor, Arinze Stanley, Ken Nwadiogbu, to mention but a few. Their ability to capture the innermost emotions of human and transfer this through their medium of art to the artistic surface (paper, canvas) got him really determined that if they could attain such feet, in their craft then nothing stops him from getting to the Same level and even greater. He got really inspired through their works and started inquiring and getting to know all it takes to make Hyperrealistic work of art and in 2018 he was already working fully in the genre and thereafter made portraits of celebrities, public figures, dignitaries and also received commissioned works. In 2018, he also established an art foundation called Samirexz Arts Academy which deals with making of visual artistic works of art, training and enlightening people on how to pursue visual and Creative art as a full time career. In 2019 he was featured in an exclusive interview with BBC news Yoruba where he talked about how he started from the genesis of his art career to the present level he is now, where he drives his inspiration from and how art can be used as a tool for national development. In addition to this he has also been interviewed in quite a couple of online magazines and publications including The Spark magazine, Slight magazine, Venu magazine to mention but a few.