Tariq Oliver
Born in Lagos, and having lived across London, Madrid and now New Jersey, Tariq Oliver is a painter whose work is shaped by a life lived across continents and cultures. He came to painting not through art school but through loss, through movement, through a gradual understanding of what he was always meant to be doing. Working primarily in oils, his canvases hold the weight of lived experience: grief, beauty, the emotional landscape of everyday life, all translated into vivid, layered form. He is a painter who trusts the process above all else, and lets the work tell him what it needs.
