Ola-Itan is a painter and drawing artist born in the Caribbean island of Marie-Galante. He specialized in oil painting and ink drawing. He developped the fundamentals of painting and drawing at the Center of Arts and Culture of Pointe-à-Pitre. He kept honing his skills by self-teaching while pursuing medical school.

His current body of work look into the relation between humans and the perceptible nature that surround us and the intangible supernatural world that lives within us through a visual vocabulary that borrow from magical realism, symbolism, baroque, fantasy and science-fiction.
He also let his Yoruba, Beninese and Caribbean background shine through his work.

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