Bayo is a Finnish/Nigerian artist based in Espoo. He spent his formative years abroad before returning to grow out his youth in Lapland.

A delicate melancholy clouds his work. An avenue to explore his own language of the indecipherable, in oils.

Alternating between rigid structures and abstracted forms he intensifies space through colour and composition. His paintings hold an aura of the surreal, the mystical. Hea im’s to ignore the conceptual, and it’s restraints, relying on the reflections of memory to derive meaning. Biased and bare. His canvas’ are a testament to the material satisfaction derived from painting, of form, of colour. They’re real as far as necessary. The rest is emergent, a function of deconstruction.