ARTIST STATEMENT O. Yemi Tubi - An Artist and Advocate for the World’s Peace. I am a Nigerian-born, American-trained Artist residing in the United Kingdom. I am an artist with a unique personal style. Most of my recent paintings were influenced by the political and social upheaval of our world today and the works of Renaissance artists. “A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art”, so said Paul Cezanne; I was moved by emotion to ...