Bruce Onobrakpeya is a renowned printmaker who has been notably influential on a younger generation of Nigerian artists including Tayo Quaye. This colour ‘etching’ is technically ambitious and assured with a dramatic melding of distinctively African styles and motifs within a western pictorial model and using a sophisticated printing process not generally associated with African printmakers who have traditionally preferred woodcut and lino-cut. The technique of this print, described as ‘deep etching’, was invented by Onobrakpeya himself. It is not in fact etching, but engraving on a surface of epoxy resin. The process results in a pronounced sculptural effect (or as the artist describes it, a low relief) in the finished print.