Bela is one of the best-known members of the Lubumbashi painting studio. The studio was founded by artist-patron Pierre Romain-Desfossés in the late 1940s, as a workshop called "Le Hangar" at the Indigenous Native Art Academy.

His originality is achieved by painting with his finger, without using a pencil. This gives freshness and the spontaneity that makes the charm in Bela's art. In addition, such a technique has a decorative effect.

The artist's favorite themes are incrediblearge fish and aquatic scenes. Animals from the wilderness are also often depicted: whether peacefully grazing or hunted by man. There are also the initiation scenes sometimes with some fantasy, depicting nocturnal and sometimes humorous scenes, a...