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West African artisan Samuel Ashong's striking original batik painting on calico is titled "The Retinue." The scene depicts a queen in front, flanked by her retinue, the two women accompanying her. The painting's bold patterns and warm colors will make a lively addition to any room.

A group of African traders stand in a line with goods balanced atop their heads in this fantastic painting from Ghana. Working with cotton calico, Emmanuel Yeboah employs the collage technique, cutting out the shapes of his subjects and replacing them with batik designs, utilizing a wax resist with colorful dyes that imitate traditional African clothing patterns.

Crafted with a dazzling array of bright colors and patterns, Emmanuel Atiemoh Yeboah's fabric collage will brighten any room it hangs in. The artisan uses batik, a wax-resist dyeing process, on calico cotton to create the mask motif, sprinkling oil paint over the background for depth. A black ceiba wood frame provides the finishing touch.

Samuel Ashong designs and creates this unique cotton print using a traditional wax-dyeing technique called batik. Wax is applied to the areas that should stay un-dyed and the rest of the material is dyed, giving every print a unique patterned design. This print depicts three young women carrying pans on their head and is a representation of the young women who migrate to the capital city of Ghana for work. The artwork is signed by the artist.

Under the quiet shelter of a vibrant umbrella, a mother carries the whole world on her back. This dazzling collage by Ghanaian artist Emmanuel Atiemoh Yeboah captures the timeless grace of African motherhood through an explosion of oil paint and batik-patterned calico, a rustic cotton fabric alive with blues, yellows, greens and golds that seem to pulse with the rhythm of everyday life. The figure's silhouette, bold and unshakeable, holds both child and umbrella with the effortless strength that only a mother knows, all set within a frame of ceiba wood that grounds the composition in the natural world.