AzeezartsContemporary Painting
A dim patterned interior, two figures still against the wallpaper
A haystack in a field at sunset, the light broken into flecks of colour
A dark green-black field broken by falling sparks of gold
A quiet interior with sunlight falling across the floorboards beside a tall window
A seated figure in profile against a grey wall, almost entirely in silhouette
A castle dissolving into mist and low sun over still water
Sunlight through a window, dust turning slowly in the beam of an empty room

Paintings of roomsremembered, neverquite seen.

Interiors half-dissolved by light, painted slowly in oil and pigment. Originals and commissions, made in Lagos and Lisbon.

Painting the spaces between memory and emotion — in oil, pigment and quiet light. 

Studio note

Each canvas begins as a fragment — a half-remembered room, a gesture, the weight of afternoon. I work slowly, in layers, until the surface holds something that cannot quite be named.

Selected works

2023 — 2026 · Oil & mixed media
A quiet interior with sunlight falling across the floorboards beside a tall window
A dark green-black field broken by falling sparks of gold
A seated figure in profile against a grey wall, almost entirely in silhouette
Sunlight through a window, dust turning slowly in the beam of an empty room
A haystack in a field at sunset, the light broken into flecks of colour
01 / 05 · Rooms Remembered

Afternoon That Would Not End

2025 · Oil and cold wax on linen · 48 × 60 in · 122 × 152 cm

$9,800Available
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02 / 05 · Thresholds

Threshold I

2025 · Oil on cold-pressed linen · 36 × 48 in · 91 × 122 cm

$6,400Available
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03 / 05 · Inheritance

Her Mother’s Blue

2024 · Oil and pigment on panel · 30 × 30 in · 76 × 76 cm

$5,200Sold
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04 / 05 · Rooms Remembered

Lisbon Window, Late May

2025 · Oil on linen · 24 × 30 in · 61 × 76 cm

$3,800Available
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05 / 05 · Harmattan

Dry Season Field

2024 · Oil and sand on canvas · 40 × 54 in · 102 × 137 cm

$7,600Reserved
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A large studio interior, the painter at work at the centreStudio / artist at easel
The studio

A slow
conversation
with the surface

Mornings are for mixing — earth pigments, lead white, a little cold wax. The painting is turned to the wall for weeks at a time, then returned to. Nothing leaves the studio until it feels inevitable.

Years painting
14Years painting
Exhibitions
21Exhibitions
Countries collected
9Countries collected
Collectors

“It arrived crated like a piece of furniture and hung like a window. Six months on, the room still organises itself around it.”

— Private collector, Copenhagen

From the studio

Follow the artist →
A painter at the easel in early light
Studio, 6am
Studio vessels and cloth on a bare table
Glaze test
A plaster figure, books and a rose on a studio table
Crating day
Fruit and cloth arranged on a table
Lisbon light
A dim patterned interior
Brush repair
A quiet tiled room seen through a doorway
Install, Kó