T-Brew
“What inspired me to do painting was the way my father dedicated his life to painting, and I enjoyed it whenever he painted. It takes determination, hard work, education, and honesty to learn the experience one needs to achieve his or her dream. I joined my father to uplift his artist studio in 19183 by working hand to hand with him and became an expert in the artist world. To wrap up, painting is something I have always wanted to do and I am proud I am an artist.”
A friend and sometime colleague of the Golden Age movie poster painter Socrates, both hailing from Western Ghana. T-Brew mostly painted for Accra area movie distributors, and therefore espouses the detail-oriented style associated with that region. He includes a profile in his signature, á la Hitchcock and the aforementioned Socrates. A regular fire-a-holic with billowing masses of fire his specialty, he seldom misses the chance to show teeth and gore. He can paint both stylized undulating rippleosity and straightforward linear detail. He stopped painting movie posters in the late 1990s, when the market for this work disappeared. He remains a determined painter from the Fante region who does his best to find work in today’s increasingly smaller realm of opportunity for creating hand-painted signage.