Yellow dress

Cecilia Lamptey-Botchway (b. 1992, Ghanaian/ Nigerian) is an artist whose practice ranges from performance, textile design, painting to multi-media work. She graduated from the Yaba College of Technology, Yaba School of Art, Design, and Textiles in 2015.
In her recent works, Cecilia experiments with colour, incorporating and deriving meaning from symbols from cloth stamping and batik tradition, found objects and other materials like mopping wool. Cecilia almost creates a unique language with which she communicates her passions. She employs an intricate sense of geometry, a delicate perspective to achieve symmetry with colours, with the mixed media adding vibrant dimensions as props to her paintings.
‘I have always been fascinated with yellow. The painting “Yellow Dress” captures that fascination of mine. For me, Yellow is a warm colour accounting for happiness and optimism as we face the challenges of the day.’