A self-taught fine artist from Polokwane is eager to make a name for himself in the art industry, and when he picks up paper and a pencil, eye-catching art is created.
Gifted Lehomu Lekalakala, who is known as Richy the Artist, is determined to make waves in the fine-arts industry with his drawings. The 27-year-old is enchanting people with his drawings. He said he is an abstract expressionist, hyper realistic ball pen artist and painter.
He says that creating beautiful art needs patience, time, discipline and creativity. “Drawing is a part of my life and I cannot live without it. To me, art is more than just a daily practice. I have been drawing my entire life, but recently started taking drawing seriously. The beauty of art can bring out a million perspectives and interpretations, what I am hoping to achieve is to speak to the world through my artwork. My recent artwork speaks about our current situation which is the Covid-19 pandemic, so I use my artwork to signify my culture to marry it with a constructive ecstatic endpoint,” he said
He said the passion started when he was nine years old. “It started as a hobby until 2016 when I started showing my artwork to people who loved it. I then realised that I can make a living from it. Drawing is something that came rather naturally to me since it has always been a source of enjoyment. I then started to fall in love with art and started to do more drawings,” he said.
He told Polokwane Observer that drawing was not just scribbling on a piece of paper. “The things we create are inspired by what we observe inside us and in our surroundings. So far, I have been drawing portraits of prominent people, artists and local people,” he concludes.
