A View from Pademba Road
Meaning of the Painting: This painting depicts the typical Creole houses before independence. Padember Road has always been a strategic route to the city centre and was an ideal residential area pre-independence the area was also very popular with the early settlers from the Americas and the Caribbean.
Material Used: watercolour on paper
Artist Bio
John Francis
John Francis is a watercolour impressionist painter but also an abstract painter from Sierra Leone. My inspiration for painting emanates from the old sierra leonean masters. I like painting pre’ colonial architectures most especially the ones related with the Creoles. Portraying Suerra Leone’s history through painting is some thing I have developed passion for since the early stages of my artistic career and this could be reflected in most of my watetcolour paintings.
