Nigeria
Born in: 1986
Painting
Born on July 29th, 1986, Raji Mohammed Babatunde is a Lagos-based Nigerian visual artist. He graduated in Fine and Applied Art from Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education in Ijanikin and he holds a Bachelor in Fine Art and Education from the University of Nigeria in Nsukka. Raji is an impressionist who expresses himself in different drawing and painting mediums.
He started exploring his interest in art while in primary school by drawing comics and cars in all his notebooks. Today, his art portrays human relationships, memories of events, and facial expressions suggesting innocence, beauty, expectations, calm, directions, etc., with the aim of making viewers of his works connect to a particular moment in their lives; mostly pleasurable and unforgettable times.