Artist Statement:
Angu Walters is in the city of Bamenda, in NW Cameroon, Central Africa, which is presently engulfed by civil war. There are not a lot of places more perfectly remote where a gifted artist seeking to emerge from obscurity faces greater obstacles.
Favorite themes of Angu Walters' paintings include musicians, families, mothers, and an idealized depiction of traditional African village life. The artist is himself a musician on the side. He has a wife and a young daughter.
The artist is aided by American friends in Idaho and Las Vegas who have possession of many paintings which are ready to be shipped immediately from the USA.
Education:
Angu Walters' interest in painting started when he was a boy experimenting with ink from different pen colors, mixed and applied them on torn cardboards, which were sometimes hung on the walls of his mother's sitting room. His mother invited the noted American-born Cameroonian artist Nzante Spee to have a look at what the child was doing with the materials he could find in his milieu. Thereafter, the famed artist took him to his workshop and guided him how to improve his skills. Since then, he has had a professional revolution with much inspiration drawn from his fine arts mentor.
Angu paints in diverse styles, most often abstract figurative and the surreal.
Awards & Distinctions:
Angu Walters' paintings have been sold all over the world, and have been exhibited in the USA, Netherlands, Australia, and in Africa at the Cameroon National Museum in Yaoundé.
Professional/Teaching Experience:
Following the pattern set by his own mentor. Angu has helped guide a number of younger artists.
Exhibitions:
Exhibitions of works by Angu Walters:
Spee Art Gallery – Permanent Exhibition – Bamenda, Cameroon
Permanent display at USA Embassy, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Bamenda, Cameroon International Trade Fair
Mankon Museum
Ayaba Hotel
Alliance Franco Cameroon
SIT-School for International training – Nschang
Phaco Club – Douala, Cameroon
Dordrecht, Holland
American Art Awards > Naïve Art > Human Figure > 2014 > Prayer
Arts Factory, First Friday, Las Vegas
Left of Center Art Gallery, Las Vegas
Artistic Influences:
The African artist got his start as a student of the noted American-born Cameroonian artist Nzante Spee. Wikipedia characterizes Spee's paintings, which could as well be applied to Angu, thusly, "His style, from cubism to surrealism and addressed to a naïve caricature but full with provocative humour, culminates in a pictorial world where all these expressions are mixed in the so-called melting age aesthetic."
Artist Tags:
surrealism, abstract, musicians, africa, friendship, family
