Nila Bah was born 1979 in Hamburg, Germany, where she lives now.

 

She is a social worker and a self-taught artist. Drawing at very young age and later on painting using oil paints then went over to acrylic painting, that she uses to this day.

 

She always experiment a lot, trying to create new styles with different materials. By having a passion for portraits, she currently love painting them with ink.

 

First of all her art was inspired by her culturally mixed origin, which is German, Portuguese and African. She stayed in Gambia for a couple of years, which has been a strong inspiration for her current works.

 

In general, traveling and immersing herself in different cultures fills her with creativity. Then, the second part, is the feeling that comes in when she is painting.

 

She is trying to express various emotions through her artworks and let them speak, so that the viewers might feel it.