While I Wait Mixed Media Painting

This mixed media painting reflects patience, resilience, and quiet transformation through layered textures and expressive emotional depth

about this mixed media painting

“While I Wait” is a powerful reflection on patience, resilience, and personal transformation. This mixed media painting explores the quiet strength found within seasons of waiting and uncertainty.

The work speaks to growth that happens beyond visibility. Through layered textures, expressive composition, and emotional depth, it captures the tension between stillness and becoming. Each element suggests that delay is not defeat, but preparation for something greater.

The painting embodies endurance, faith, and inner discipline. It reflects the courage to continue evolving, even when progress feels unseen. Rather than surrendering to frustration, the figure carries purpose with calm determination.

about the artist

Samuel Kayode Toba, born in 1990, is a Nigerian conceptual artist working from Oyo State, Nigeria. He studied art at The Polytechnic Ibadan and earned a Higher National Diploma in Painting in 2018. Since graduation, he has steadily pursued his practice with deep fascination for Nigerian colors, textures, folklore, and cultural narratives.

Working primarily with acrylic and newsprint on textured canvas, he expresses personal curiosities through bold, animated strokes. His distinctive style fuses traditional Nigerian motifs with contemporary expressions, creating compositions that resonate on emotional and cultural levels.

Toba’s approach celebrates acrylics in pure hues and in carefully blended layers that highlight movement, depth, and spontaneity. His brushwork combines dynamic textures with layered impressions, emphasizing both control and freedom in two-dimensional spaces. He integrates contrasting and complementary colors with confidence, infusing each piece with energy and striking visual impact.

The recurring black human form anchors his exploration of identity, memory, spirituality, and interconnectedness. Through this motif, he pushes boundaries of perception and expands how African culture can be represented in contemporary art. His works promote heritage while celebrating beauty, urging audiences to reimagine art’s possibilities and cultural significance. 

Exhibited in galleries and art fairs locally and internationally, his work receives acclaim for evocative storytelling and powerful imagery. Toba continues to advance his vision, creating art that speaks globally while rooted deeply in African traditions and perspectives.

collection

View Samuel Kayode Toba's Dubai collection of available artworks here

copyright

This mixed media painting is one of a kind original therefore, all copyrights and reproduction rights are reserved by the artist