North artist creates Covid-19 awareness
"I made artwork from Five Roses teabags and soft pastels to create awareness of the pandemic."
An artist from Soshanguve wants to showcase his talent to the world by telling the story of the current coronavirus pandemic.
Polelo Huma (29) said a sketch he drew represents the Covid-19 pandemic and indicates how people should work together and carefully to protect themselves.
He said if nations worked together and helped each other, the pandemic can be fought.
“I made artwork from Five Roses teabags and soft pastels to create awareness of the pandemic. The artwork is titled ‘Divided We Fall, Together We Conquer: Fighting Covid-19’,” said Huma.
Huma is self-taught artist who studied printmaking at Artist Proof Studio in Johannesburg.
He was short-listed at the top 20 Bic Art Master competition 2018 and won the Soshanguve Crossing Mall character competition.
He won a top spot at an art competition named Drawing from Observation and was third in the Nkomo Village art competition in 2019.
“I had the privilege of meeting several highly celebrated artists in the art industry. I still want to grow and meet others to widen my abilities,” he said.
He wants to be recognised as an icon in the art industry.
Huma said he realised he had a drawing talent since childhood.
“My grade 6 teacher told me I was gifted with drawing. I realised I was talented and needed to work on it, I began embracing my talent,” he said.
He said his drawing journey has never been easy as the competition is high at the drawing industry.
“At some time I wanted to give up because I thought art was just about drawing that anyone can do. I thought could not make it as a career and make living out of it, but I kept on motivating myself to do better to this very day,” said Huma.
Huma said after his pandemic sketches, he will be making sketches based on depression and gender-based violence.
“I will be working on artwork linked to gender-based violence and depression,” he said.
“I want to use my art to tell stories that have to do with human daily lives.”
Not only is Huma an artist, but he is also a writer and a dancer.
“I would also like to publish motivational and devotional books so that if people cannot see the story in the art, they can read about it in my books,” said Huma.
He said his mother played a big role in his life.
“I am self-motivated because I struggled and fought a lot to be where I am today,” said Huma.
“I want to pass this rare talent to other young and emerging visual artists.”
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