Abiodun Olaku was born in Nigeria in 1958. He studied painting at Yaba College of technology in Lagos under the tutelage of Professor Yusuf Grillo, Kolade Oshinowo and the late Dr Isiaka Osunde. Olaku's original and continuing inspiration as a painter is drawn from the notion of art transcending time and outliving its creator. Inherent in his work there is a compelling dichotomy between the precision with which the artist frames his compositions and responds to his subject matter - and the subject matter itself - the minutiae of nature's atmospherics and the complex narratives of human activity.

Olaku's works are visual tributes to Nigerian life as it is evolving; contemporary culture observed and recreatehttp://theauctionroom.com/auctions/9...