Artist Poet & Writer

Jane Musoke-Nteyafas, is an beautiful African Artist and internationally recognized as a poet, visual artist, author and playwright. She is an inspiration to me and i decided to analyze her paintings. This piece by Jane is called Ishtar, and represents a strong, confident, beautiful, creative woman. I was hoping i would get lucky and manage to get intouch with her to hear her side of the story, on what was going on in her mind while she was painting and what she wanted the painting to say to her audience..however after relentlessly stalcking her on facebook, i have not yet heard from her. It would have be interesting to see the different interpretations we may have. Yes yours too.

However during an interview she was asked one question, this is what she had to say.

Jamati: What would you say is the main message that you try to send through your visual art?
Love yourself as you are. If you believe in God, trust that he did not make mistakes when he made you. There is this poisonous lie going around that people are not enough; not beautiful enough for example until they have changed themselves, you know, by lightening their skins, plastic surgery, starving themselves etc. It’s great to experiment with different looks, but when the basis of the change is based upon thinking you are not good enough or beautiful enough it’s misplaced. I have a poem called Not Good Enough based on that.

(from www.jamati.com)

I love the colours of this painting, bright and inviting, and the fact that the strokes are going round makes it seem like you can see her aura, very inviting, independent.