Vanessa

Peterson

Explores

the

Home

and

Art

Practice

of

Ghanian

Master

painter

Atta

Kwami

The hot-hued, geometric paintings of Atta Kwami were strongly influenced by music, especially of the improvisational kind – and it was in his terrace house in Loughborough that the late Ghanaian artist found his working rhythm alongside his wife, Pamela Clarkson Kwami. The artist explains to Vanessa Peterson how the syncopation of sharing ideas and commenting on each other’s pieces-in-progress made for a simpatico studio life.