Visual Art – Columbus

I fled my country of Southern Sudan in 1987, along with 35,000 other Lost Boys. While in a refugee camp in Kenya, I developed art skills on my own from memory and imagination, using materials available in the camp. Many of my paintings tell the story of the Lost Boys, which I calls “The Journey of Hope”. “Painting the obstacles that we faced is very difficult, but I think of it as an opportunity to reflect on God’s provision to us during that time”. I graduated from The Ohio State University in 2009, where I majored in Fine Art. I returned to my home in Southern Sudan in 2007 and 2010. I am currently raising funds to hire a nurse/midwife and lab technician and buy medical equipment and supplies for the health clinic that we built in my village of Piol. I live in Columbus, Ohio with my wife, daughter and two sons.