About Keisha Manijean: Keisha Manijean has acquired varied skills in several different mediums including charcoal, pastel and oils. As a student at the Savannah College of Art & Design she pursued her love for fantasy. While studying surrealism she gave birth to the idea of creating art with a message of universal love. Since then she has become widely recognized for the “Universal Love Series”. It includes more than 100 works of art that communicate unity and love. Her unique and joyful method of personifying eating utensils to spread positive messages is admired by art enthusiasts and culinary communities around the world. Her exuberant images are available as original oil paintings as well as prints and can be found in many private collections in the United States and Europe. Her painting “Red Chair”, shown above, was selected for the Manhattan Arts International “HerStory” 2019 online art exhibition and received an Award of Merit.
Keisha was featured in an interview with 17 of her paintings in Destig magazine’s special “Best Artists of 2019” edition.
Keisha Manijean’s Artist’s Statement: The Universal Love Series is a collection of artwork that connects surrealism with natural design by depicting love through various characters such as spoons, forks, knives, and trees. It is based on the concept that everybody’s gotta eat, everybody’s gotta love. Loving and eating are two of the most natural things we can do as human beings. I want to create a love movement that can be felt, seen, and experienced wherever my artwork is displayed. I view myself as a celestial storyteller, rather than an artist intending to sell pictures. Pictures are a form of communication for me. I am trying to go back to the beginning, where art was used as form of communication.
Interesting Fact About Keisha Manijean: She began drawing at the early age of five, inspired by images from Beauty and the Beast and she soon included every Disney character. She is in the process of establishing a nonprofit charity called the Just Love Movement and states, “It is all about natural born talent. I believe we all have one and if we can discover it within ourselves, we can make the world a better place.”