This Talented Artist Uses Waste Trash, Convert Them To Beautiful Art & Called It “Trash To Art”, Meet Essilfie Banton

His parents wanted him to be a lawyer or a
doctor and yet his heart was after the arts.

Without support at the start of his dreams, he chose to set off on the path his parents wanted, albeit pursuing general arts, until he got to the tertiary level when his
dreams to pursue visual arts had spiraled to the peak; at this point, there was no stopping.

Essilfie started exploring his passion for art. He began with sketching, then painting and just about 2 years ago, he had his Eureka moment.

At this point, he decided to do something
different use waste, what people will typically
call trash and convert it into beautiful art; he
called it, “Trash to Art”
From that point, he was unstoppable!

He created art after art from sachet rubbers, waste cans, milo sachets, spoilt dolls and many other waste materials he could gather from the environment.

Today, he is pursuing a Master Philosophy of
Arts in Education at the University of Education
Winneba, hoping to take his work to another
notch.

Essilfie is happy he made that decision because today, he revealed, his first artwork which is a portrait of Ghana’s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah is worth over 50,000 dollars whilst others including an artwork of the Black Star Square and others, are worth millions of Ghana Cedis.

Source:Ghanaweb

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