About The Artist

Eric Odartey’s Biography Eric Odartey Cruickshank,professionally known as “lines being “ is a versatile and self taught artist born in Accra,Ghana in the year 2000. Currently (2020) a student of Odorgono Senior High School offering Visual arts as a course.He developed the aptitude and creativity for the execution of everyday contemporary art and works in various media’s ranging from wet to dry. Being a celebrated and an award winning hyper-realistic artist,a contemporary artist and a conceptual artist aims with great achievements and titles. Notable amongst his awards is the “Best Unique Talent ,WTB awards ” initiated by high school Tv. Amongst his artworks are famous people example is a portrait of the late Kofi Annan. He aims at projecting black identity worldwide through the use of lines in his art pieces. Every line according to Eric tells him something distinctive ,be it thick ,straight,curve wavy,spiral or even faint and broken. He believes that there’s a strong relation between lines and human figures as the insights and idea originated from the line patterns on the palm which symbolizes identity and tree backs . Lines do express mood and feelings. Amongst his role models and mentors in the art world is Amoako Boafo- a Ghanaian contemporary artist based in Vienna,Austria.