Favour Isioma (b. 2002) is a Nigerian visual artist from Anambra State, living and working in Ibadan, Oyo State. She earned a B.Sc. in Fine and Applied Arts (Painting) from Nnamdi Azikiwe University in 2023. Her work has been featured in several national exhibitions, including Undiscovered 3.0 Abuja (2025), Things Fall Apart exhibit (2025), the 2024 Artists Commune exhibition, and HEARTSCAPES, the culminating group show of her residency with the African Female Artists Mentorship Program, 2024.

Favour’s practice explores the emotional weight of everyday life, finding meaning in quiet, often-overlooked moments: a slouched body, a turned back, a still hand. These subtle gestures reveal how emotion lives in the body, folds into memory, and sometimes gets stuck.

Rooted in both personal and shared experiences, her process often begins in silence or conversation — moments that offer glimpses into the emotional lives of others. Listening deeply shapes how she approaches painting, turning her canvases into spaces for empathy and reflection.

She works intuitively with oil, acrylic, newspaper, mixed media, and most recently, embroidery. Thread moves across her painted surfaces as an added layer of storytelling, reflecting the layered, responsive nature of her process.

Color, for Favour, is emotion. Her paintings are vibrant, while her figures remain muted and monochrome, posed in ways that hold tension, ease, or quiet weight. She calls this approach emotional realism — work that privileges felt truth over literal representation.

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Art Statement

My works approach ‘Returning’ as a journey back to memory and home not just physical spaces, but the emotional landscapes that live within us. They explore how the act of returning can be both tender and difficult, holding grief and healing side by side. Through resilience, the figures embody what it means to come back to ourselves, to belonging, and to wholeness.