NIGERIA - Florence Adeyemi (b.1949) hails from Ijebu-Ijesa, Osun State. She studied at the Ori Olokun Art School (now OAU Institute of African Studies) and is the wife of acclaimed Batik artist Yinka Adeyemi. Her depictions of daily life and religion are bold, honest and filled with pattern and texture. Happy Family shows four members of the family with boggling eyes facing the viewer while a daughter seems to linger shyly behind the father. This painting is punctuated with primary colors; all shapes are outlined in black and patterns abound. To Market depicts two women walking towards us with loads on their heads. Mother and child show the profile of a well-dressed woman, baby tied to her back with a wrapper, a common practice in Nigeria. Weaver is a more intricate piece showing the weaver with her loom set up in front of the compound. The long green and yellow strip cloth weaving snakes around the foreground while the back of the work is highlighted by black, red and white stripes on the roofs of the huts. Both To Market and Weaver are batik on rice paper pieces which have background texture enhancement due to the crackle of the wax.