Half lion, half man with dreadlocks, beside a large blue diamond, set against purple plaid and red grounds.
A cubist head wearing a gold crown, crying, with a blue diamond on the cheek, framed by deep red edges.
Portrait of a man with a black afro, bandaged face and blue tears, beside a cracked blue diamond.
The word Royalty in black lettering over a teal, purple and yellow ground, with a gold crown and white diamond.
A woman in a mustard hooded scarf in profile beside a blue diamond and a black crescent moon on grey.
Poured abstract in red, white, black, blue and yellow swirls with a white and blue diamond at the center.

Portraits and narrative scenes of Lebou identity, faith, family and resilience.

I am a traditional & Cultural artist that uses bold colors to dictate the story behind the paintings

Lamine Diagne

Painting as testimony

Lamine Diagne paints in flat, fearless colour held together by a strong black line. Each canvas is a testimony: to Lebou heritage, to faith, to family, and to the wounds a person carries and outgrows.

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A returning vocabulary

The same symbols travel from canvas to canvas, so that each new painting speaks the language of the last.

The blue diamond

The blue diamond travels from painting to painting: sometimes whole, sometimes cracked, always kept. It returns like a signature, a value that survives whatever the picture is going through.

Seen in Thank God for a Tough Time
Detail of Thank God for a Tough Time

The crescent

The crescent moon marks the place of faith in the work, breaking through clouds or standing quietly at the edge of a scene.

Seen in A Wife's Prayer
Detail of A Wife's Prayer

Lebou and Buur

Written words fill entire grounds: Lebou, the name of a people of the Senegalese coast, and Buur, repeated like a chant behind the figures.

Seen in Lebou Pride
Detail of Lebou Pride

Roots and the heart

Red roots run under walking feet and a heart is carried in open hands: family, origin and feeling, painted as things you hold and stand on.

Seen in Pride and Heart Break Road
Detail of Pride and Heart Break Road

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A bright living room with a curved sofa and a plain wall Half lion, half man with dreadlocks, beside a large blue diamond, set against purple plaid and red grounds.

Lebou Pride, shown to scale

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