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Eric Odartey Cruikshank is a Ghanaian expressionist born in Accra in March,2000.Currently studying industrial arts;studio practice and commercial arts at the Takoradi Technical university.

Eric discovered his passion for arts at a very tender age but fully got into it at age 12 and started experimenting with realistic portrait drawing,by age 20 Eric found himself breaking some of the norms in art while creating his own unique style.

To him,expressionism is his way of being authentic and a means through which he expresses himself without hesitation.”Art is a culture and I’m confident in sharing my culture through painting and sculpture”,says Eric.

Amoako Boafo ,Kerry James Marshall and neighbors who are positively impacting lives are some of the people who inspire Eric’s creativity and visual language.

Having participated in six exhibitions,he looks forward to having most of his works exhibited globally and is also working towards adding his quota to the creative space.

Eric wants his viewers to resonate with his works and see them as therapeutic objects and not just another piece of art,this is one of the major reasons why he’s constantly working towards having his works documented and exhibited in galleries and museums all around the world and even looks forward to seeing his works exhibited alongside some of his mentors.

According to Eric,he seeks to use his work as a tool to motivate and elevate the hopeless in the environment he comes from because he has seen and experienced their downfalls,neglections,state of hopelessness and will like to draw their attention to the fact that there’s always “light at the end of the tunnel”.