ST!LL BLOOM!NG: What if growth isn’t linear but cyclical, communal, and eternal? Funmilola...

Описание: ST!LL BLOOM!NG: Artist Conversations | Episode #4 — Funmilola Adeseun
In this episode of Artist Conversations, created alongside ST!LL BLOOMING: Emerging in Radiance, Rooted in Resilience, I sit down with architect and mixed media artist Funmilola Adeseun (@byajike) to explore legacy, colour, and the generational wisdom carried in her work.
Her painting Rooted (2025) reminds us that life is one big garden and we are the blossoms.
From seedling to elder, our growth unfolds through interconnected stages: budding, blooming, ripening, and returning to the earth to regenerate. In rejecting the idea of linear progress, Funmilola embraces a spiral understanding of life, one shaped by culture, kinship, and community.
In our conversation, she shares how her father inspired her creative path, how architecture informs her maximalist compositions, and how joy and opulence become acts of cultural affirmation.
As she writes:
Life is one big garden, and we are the Blossoms. Seeds popping, Children budding, Teens blooming, Adults flowering… Then we return to earth, regenerating, seeding again, blooming again. We Blossom always, with heads held high.
This is a conversation about inheritance, colour as celebration, and survival through continuity, where softness is not fragility, but rooted strength.
Listen now and be inspired.
Guest: Funmilola Adeseun (@byajike)
Artwork: Rooted, 2025, Acrylic & Oil on Canvas (48” x 36”)
Exhibition: ST!LL BLOOMING: Emerging in Radiance, Rooted in Resilience
Dates: February 7 – May 24, 2026