Sunday style inspiration from model Nyawal Tut, captured on canvas by the Ghanaian artist Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, whose work features on the cover of Elephant’s latest issue alongside that of fellow figurative painter Kwesi Botchway. Quaicoe’s stirring portraits frequently find his sitters gazing out at the viewer with an intense stare, deliberately echoing those he encountered when he first moved to the States. “I try to give that sense of how we feel as Black people, when we walk in our neighbourhood or to the grocery store,” he explains in an interview for Issue 45. “We know we are not wanted. I give the same look back to the viewer… It also draws you in, to know the subject. Who is this person? Why are they staring so deeply at me?”
