WINDHOEK– This year she will host her first exhibition in Windhoek, meet more artistic people and hopefully hold more exhibitions countrywide and abroad. In this regard sponsorship will be highly appreciated to support her dreams as a young and ambitious artist.
Enters artist Shawty-P, really name Pandeinge Moses (24), who is slowly making her marks on the sketching industry.“I have been sketching for a very long time, ever since I was young. I don’t used to play much with other kids but rather paid much attention to arts and creativities,” says Shawty-P. Born in Ongwediva to a single mother, Shawty-P says her niche in drawings really came alive at the Mweshipandeka High School in Ongwediva. “Growing up I didn’t really look up to anyone for art inspiration but at the end of 2012 I was caught up with a hyper realism for sketches and paintings. My biggest inspiration in art is the United Kingdom (UK)- based Nigerian sketch artist, Kelvin Okafor. The guy is a genius, I really do admire his artworks, and he is the reason I am living my dreams,” says Shawty-P.
Shawty-P is an artist who does fine arts; draw random stuff, as from animals, tea-cups, sceneries and traditional sketching, but mostly, the beauty of Namibian landscapes. “For now I don’t have any theme for my work but I am yet to use a theme of some kind but for now I will keep on drawing what inspires me the most and at that exact moment,” she says. She adds that her foremost challenge is when people request facial portraits of themselves and their loved ones. Normally when she is drawing, she only uses a paper, pencil, eraser and that’s all. Recently she started painting herself for art inspiration and motivates other youths.
She says she usually just sit in front of a computer or a bigger screen, pull out her sketch book which should have an image of what she want to sketch and should at least have 300gsm papers, graphite pencils of all shades and a couple of colour pencils.
One of the astonishing artworks of Shawty-P is one of last year’s winner of Big Brother The Chase, Dillish Matthews, and the one of the Founding Father, Sam Nujoma.
By Pinehas Nakaziko