Blaise Vernyuy

Blaise was born in 1993 in the village of Kumbo in the northwestern grasslands region of Cameroon . Drawing and making toys became young Blaise's favorite pastimes from an early age .
After high school, he became a math teacher while simultaneously completing a four-year art course, after which he completed a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts/Art History, which he graduated as the top overall student at his university. After his university studies, he focused on his creative career, producing works in a studio in his hometown of Bamenda. He moved to the southwest coastal region of Limbe and set up a studio there in 2021.

His medium of expression is acrylic on canvas, in which he uses masks, symbolic elements from African culture, geometric patterns, figures, lines, colors and sometimes textures in the synthesis of images that he describes as "Afro-abstract figurative paintings". His figures are caught in phrases and quotes from heads of state and famous people, slogans from protest movements and statements related to the particular theme of the painting.

The figures carry these texts with them as if to say, "This is what we believe in, and so should you if you want to make the world a better place." He has participated in local and international group exhibitions, solo exhibitions and private shows with these works. He hopes that these works will remind world leaders of their obligations and remind the people of the world that we must commit ourselves, both in words and deeds, to expel all threats and vices from our societies and from our planet. Because when all this is said and done, we will surely have a sustainable world where everyone and every generation feels comfortable to live on every continent and for centuries to come.

"Ordinary people become extraordinary by doing extraordinary things."