Hello – I hope your week is going well! I want to introduce you to Odyssey Artisans. Odyssey Artisans specializes in contemporary art and home decor and are committed to sharing Africa’s vibrant, rich, and diverse cultural heritage. They carry a line of fine art by African contemporary artists and have launched a pillow collection featuring materials once reserved for African royalty and are reimagining a new life for traditional Ghanaian kente as lush home decor.
Meet Odyssey Artisans founders Eunice and Bernice Kyereme Ghanaian-American sisters who love Africa and African art.
Bernice and Eunice were born in Ghana and raised in the United States. Their parents raised them on stories of their Ghanaian hometowns Wamfie and Abisem in Brong-Ahafo inspiring the sisters to look deeper into Ghana’s cultural fabric and in turn to the emerging contemporary art scene. The sisters wanted to share this rich historic and contemporary artistic landscape with the world and Odyssey Artisans was born.
I could definitely see these pillows in so many settings from casual to more formal, at the beach, the mountains or in a city space.
I truly believe that color is making a big comeback in interiors and I am on #teamcolor
Check out Odyssey Artisans here.
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I love how colorful this art is! It is so interesting to know the story behind these beautiful pieces. Thank you for introducing me to the artists!
I LOVE seeing colour! The patterns, the use of colour, and knowing that local artists have produced these, are all wins for me! Thank you for introducing them to us.
Beautiful colors and patterns. I love Visionary Leaders and the Nana pillow!
What a fabulous introduction, Linda, Thank you!! I adore those pillows – they would add life to SO many spaces!
Yes they would!
This is such a wonderful post, Linda. I am so glad to see you featuring artists with diverse backgrounds. I love the art and the pillows, but especially that first piece of art.
It’s perfect for #designhappyliving homes.
Thanks for bringing the work of these two sisters to our attention.
Hi Leslie – I love that first piece “Feeding the Mind” as well!
I love this blog post and the work and fabrics you featured are simply irresistible. I looked at their website and see why you are so inspired by it all! Great post LInda!
Thanks Amy!
Hello Linda, These pieces are like a fresh breeze after all the bland and copy-cat ‘dupe’ decor I have been seeing on the internet lately (yours and several other blogs/channels excluded, of course!). I love the kind of house where every piece has a story, and these pieces all have the story built in.
–Jim
Hi Jim – I so agree about things – especially art – should tell a story. And these pieces certainly do!