ART focuses on objects made by humans in visual form for aesthetic purposes.
It can be classified in diverse ways, such as separating fine arts from applied arts,inclusively focusing on human creativity; or different media such as architecture, sculpture, painting, film, photography, and graphic arts.
In recent years, technological advances have led to video art, computer art, performance art, animation, television, and videogames.
This story focuses on a young artists making strides in Ghana.
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Meet 42 year old Henry Nhyira Bart-Plange, who hails from Elmina Estate in Cape Coast of the Central region of Ghana. He lives in Golf City in Community 25, a suburb of Tema.
Henry is the only male among three female siblings namely Lydia, Josephine and Winifred.
Growing up, his younger sister –Jozzy- asked him to do an art piece saying “I BELIEVE MY BROTHER CAN DO THIS”. He did it and since then, he developed the desire and passion for arts and been doing it for the past two years.
Henry attended Tema Industry Mission where he studied wood work from 1996 to 1999.
Now, he is into wall cladding with wood metal and BAMBOO tag with a brand name wallci.
However, according to him, he usually uses raw woods available and branches of trees for his arts.
Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
It is an organic material a natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin that resists compression.
Aside the arts, Henry Nhyira is also an entrepreneur who is into eggs, honey, spring rolling, salad retailing among others.
Entrepreneurs are drivers of economic development; emphasizing their role as one of the collecting factors of productions allocating resource from less to field that are more productive.
In the field of economics, the term entrepreneur is used for an entity which has the ability to translate invention or technologies into products and the service.
His love for fashion compelled him to organize a Taapoli weeding fair in Tema which caught lot of attention.
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It’s about 10am on Thursday morning and henry is preparing to the bush, as he hurriedly assembles all his tools to cut woods for his art piece.
The bush is about 2minutes drive from his house.
On arrival he brings out his tools from the car boot to set the agenda.
He needs to climb high on the tree in other to get suitable branches for his art, depending on the design.
The news team followed him back home to find what he was up to.
He then brings out the woods he got from the bush and begins to cut them into smaller pieces to produce his art.
His art work has won the hearts of many like Imani president-Mr. franklin Coujo, kay-waa, hotel owners in Accra and Tema among others.
Nhyira believes sometimes it is always not about doing what is available, instead bringing out the very best you can.
The history of arts is often told as a chronology of master pieces created during each civilization. It can be framed as a story of high culture, epitomized by the wonders of the world.
In as much as Henry is able to craft his imagination into at piece, he is constraint financially.
But he is optimistic things would get better in due course as his dream is to export these craft into neighboring countries.
Hard work they say beats talents, nurturing it to reach its highest point of recognition is a matter concern and urgency for you and I.
A report by Jackline Favour Asassey- Ashaiman TV
Source: Mynewsghana
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