Impressionist Painting of a Cottage from Ghana, "There Was a Cottage"

Inspired by the stories he was told as a child, Ghanaian artist Alex Mensah paints this dreamy composition. Says the artist, "Such stories had great life lessons that always had to be learned at the end." In this impressionist scene, a lone man climbs a grassy green hill as he approaches a rustic cottage, framed against a cloudy grey sky.