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Meet Cindy Ayim, A Medical Student Who Moonlights As An Artist

Cindy is a 5th-year medical student of the University of Ghana Medical school who loves art.

Apparently, she has been involved in art since infancy. According to her been involved in art since she can remember. 

Her dad framed painting of hers when she was about 3 years old so she guesses she started around then. she has generally always done something art-related. 

Over time she got involved in charcoal work, digital art and then painting about 4 years ago. Cindy’s paintings are inspired pretty much by anything. Mostly, she is inspired by what she sees; a line in a poem or novel and also by what someone says. 

Like any budding artist, Cindy is also inspired by some great artists. She is a big fan and loves the works of renowned Ghanaian artist, Ablade Glover. She is also inspired by the paintings of Cecily Brown.

“There are so many fascinating aspects of art. With a pencil portrait, for example, you’re more concerned with precision, proportions and getting everything right- it teaches you to pay attention a little more. With an imaginative painting, you are essentially learning to simply create and trust that your ideas will turn out great.”

For someone who loved art since childhood, it would have been perfect for Cindy to study Visual Arts at senior high school but, she chose to study General Science instead because she liked science a lot and in her mind, art was always going to be there. “I could always go back to it [art] even if I pursued science and so I did. I felt doing it the other way round would have been much more difficult.”

she didn’t study art at school, neither did she have an art teacher to teach her at home. So how did she become this good at art? Cindy learnt how to do all these amazing paintings and drawings by herself. So how did she do it?…

“So for me, it’s mostly a trial and error thing. You mess up and then learn something new to use for the next painting,” she said.


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