Reflecting on his childhood memories and dreams, as he grew up in an African home, He engages the viewer’s imagination and emotions. Festus, skillfully achieves a balance of realistic and abstract passage in his work. Festus works with oils, acrylic and charcoal to create large scale canvas(es) of predominantly bisected faces combined with floral and abstraction elements.
The flowers in his work depict times and seasons; Flowers bloom, blossom and wither because they are seasonal.
He uses the flowers primarily to capture time, which is transient. The elements he uses in the back are biomorphic and fluid in shape, depicting structures and institutions in the world.
He captures and depicts black bodies bursting through with flower elements, to refer to the optimism that lies within the pain of being black, depicting a sense of growth and resilience in the face of ubiquitous racial prejudice and adversity largely faced by people of color. And the flowers bursting through different genders, captures different emotions and expressions.
He is a contemporary African surrealist, paying homage to quintessential surrealists; Yves Tanguy, Salvador Dali and René Magritte in his work. He explores surrealism within his own visual vocabulary from an authentic African perspective is something he enjoys.