Abstraction as Memory, Gesture as Truth

This body of work emerges from an inner tension between emotion, memory, and identity. Rather than offering literal narratives, the works explore how personal experience, subconscious thought, and social reality can be translated into abstract form.

Feeling, movement, and energy become visual language, inviting the viewer to consider how meaning can exist beyond representation, and how abstraction can communicate what words cannot.

Abiola’s paintings hold movement, tension, and release simultaneously. Layer by layer, gesture becomes memory, colour becomes emotion, and abstraction reveals itself as a quiet form of truth.

Working across acrylic, oil, and charcoal on canvas, Abiola moves fluidly between abstraction and figuration. Drawing from expressive mark-making and the human form, his practice uses free, continuous lines and unrestrained colour to explore emotional and social states.