Oriana Jemide is a multidisciplinary creative working within visual arts and creative writing, specialising in landscape painting. She is currently focused on combining her love for textiles and landscapes to produce paintings that document daily life.  She is interested in exploring what it means to Black outside focusing on the body; it is why her figures don’t include features. Influenced by her Nigerian heritage and her love for nature her work sets out to archive the stories of one’s life journeying from childhood to adulthood. Her hope is to develop sensory sets through combining multiple mediums including painting, sculpture, photography and sound.

In this episode, Oriana talks painting & prophecy, navigating rejection, finding freedom in faith and being the fruit of creative legacy.

Verses Mentioned 

Ephesians 1:4-5