The Art of Colors; My Healer
Biography
Sunshine Happiness Amos is a Flower impressionist painter born in 1994 Ikeja,Lagos Nigeria. She grew up in Nigeria and Ghana and re-located to Togo In 2020.
Sunshine's Art journey started as a child when she was gifted a set of Watercolors and colored pencils by her Mother. She started painting illustrations from children's story books and took drawing illustrations as a hobby. After graduating from Secondary school she went to various Art Vocational Schools to hone her drawing and painting skills from 2013 to 2022.
During her years studying various Art techniques in her vocational art schools; She found her true passion in Flowers and garden landscape. She was inspired by the shapes and colors of the garden scenery. She started to paint garden sceneries with Gouache and Acrylics and became an impressionist painter due to the way she paint by brush strokes expression and focus on colors and shapes of the subject matter in the garden paintings.
Sunshine later went to became an impressionist Still life garden painter. Which is inspired by flowers in a vase with a garden surrounding. She started her Still life flower Art creation in mid 2021 as an escape from reality and anxiety disorder. She said the focus of Still life mixed with garden scenery is like painting a realistic dream of peace, hope and wellness. As her interest in painting home objects and flowers began to grow. She focused on painting Still lifes with watercolors and Acrylics for the next two years.
Sunshine's Still life works is inspired by Homes and gardens from mostly Japan, England and America.
Her Still life is simply an Art of Home and Garden. And a celebration of Everyday living.
Her Garden and Still life works have been wildly appreciated by Art admires and Collectors.
Influences
Suzanne Valadon, Augustus Renior, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet
Education
2021-2023 Anna Mason watercolor Vocational School London, England, United Kingdom
2019-2021 Watercolor Shibasaki Vocational School Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
The artist at work
Prizes and Awards
2023 Contemporary Watercolor Still life competition San Francisco, California, United States
Solo Expositions
2024 Living in Gardenia San Diego, California, United States
2021 Good Time Still life Solo exhibition Lomé, Lomé, Togo
Collective Expositions
2023 Watercolor association of San Diego San Diego, California, United States
2022 The Other Art Fair online exhibition Los Angeles, California, United States
Permanent Collections
2025 Living in Gardenia Los Angeles, California, United States
2021 Olumo Rock Art Gallery Abeokuta, Ogun, Nigeria
Residencies
2024 Watercolor impressionism group Exhibition San Francisco, California, United States
2023 International Watercolor Society of San Francisco San Francisco, California, United States
Publications & Press
2025 Best of Still life in Watercolor Manchester, England, United Kingdom