Rikki Wemega-Kwawu

Rikki Wmega-Kwawu was born on February 3 1959 in the city of Sekondi, Ghana. A devoted painter since 1981, he is largely self taught, though he is an aluminus of the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine USA. He has participated in many group exhibitions and his work can be found across the world in public and private collections.

Rikki is variously described as an art therorist, art historian and writer. In hiswork as an artist, he can be very eclectic, vacillating easily between abstraction and figuration. His work is deeply informed by Jungian philosophy and spirituality (Afro Metaphysics) exploring all the ancient writing systems from all over the African continent and beyond. 
Source - Ghana Contemporary 

On a deeper level, my work goes far beyond the materiality and corporality of the two dimensional form to a transcendent reality behind the physical surface.
Drawing upon a vein of ancient African religious iconography, I aim in my work at a symbolic expression of a spiritual process and spiritual knowledge to recapture the lost power of traditional African art.  Significantly, the role of color in my work is to suffuse the room where the painting is hanging with its illumination, and to elicit visual intimacy and emotional immediacy, thereby providing a kind of visual shamanic experience for the viewer.