Djibril N'Doye, submitted artwork
Djibril N'Doye
Painting
Southern Utah USA
Self-taught, Senegalese artist drawing with simple yet unforgiving tools: woodburning or ballpoint pen. Djibril considers his work to be universal art, and his personalized style of drawing creates the effect of transparency in his images. His drawings portray a variety of scenes from daily life based in his culturally rich native West Africa. With images of family, farming, fishing, music & dance, all pulling together the threads of his life experience, Djibril draws people living and working in rural, communal life. His drawings are often filled with a layer of societal expectation and personal obligation. There is an underlying sense of urgency about current society.
Works
Djibril N'Doye, submitted artwork
In my art, it is my inspiration first and the medium after. Freedom is the foundation of the manner in which I express myself. I like to create, but I also want to see my personality and life experience in what I create. I started drawing in black and white a long time ago with a simple, affordable ballpoint pen on paper as I often relate visually to natural and carved ebony wood which influenced me a lot. Growing up in a community active in farming, fishing, and raising cattle taught me many things. Such a nurturing and cyclical environment was the “school of life” for me. I have been involved in art since my childhood. I never underwent formal training in art as I grew up in a family with very limited finances. I always had difficulty getting standard art supplies. During that time in my life, I was completely unacquainted with “art” as an academic term. But over time, with patience, perseverance, and simply doing what I always loved to do, I felt encouraged and adopted a personal philosophy that has made me very independent in the style in which I express myself. To create my art, I prefer to work in a non-traditional manner and move away from the strictly academic methods because my school is everyday life. In my drawings, I utilize simple but unforgiving tools as I explore people living and working with dignity in rural, communal life – a life that has many layers of individual obligation and societal expectation.
