Richard Yumba
Bergen, Bergen
Richard Yumba Ngombe is a Congolese artist based in Norway, creating portrait-based paintings and drawings that explore love, resilience, and human dignity.
Message
Richard Yumba Ngombe is a visual artist working primarily with painting and drawing. His portrait-based practice centers on themes of love, resilience, family, and the strength of the human spirit. Through bold color, emotional presence, and a balance between realism and expression, he creates works that give voice to stories of care, memory, and hope.
Deeply interested in identity and human connection, Yumba’s art reflects both personal experience and wider social realities, especially the lives of women and children affected by violence and displacement. His work seeks to honor dignity and reveal the quiet strength that lives within ordinary faces.
For Yumba, art is a tool for healing and dialogue. Each work becomes a space where struggle meets light, and where viewers are invited to reflect, feel, and recognize themselves in others. Through his growing body of work, he continues to build a visual language rooted in compassion, presence, and the belief that art can inspire change.
Statement
🎨 Artist Statement
My art is a space of resistance and tenderness.
I create to honor lives that are often unseen women, children, families and to remind us of the dignity that lives in every human story.
Working with bold color, expressive forms, and strong figures, I explore love as a radical force: a force that heals, protects, and gives us the courage to rise. My paintings and drawings carry traces of memory and struggle, but they are always guided by light by the belief that even in pain, hope can grow.
I am drawn to portraiture because a face can hold a world. In each gaze, I search for resilience the quiet strength that allows people to endure, to care, and to keep dreaming. My process moves between realism and expression, allowing truth and emotion to live side by side.
Art, for me, is not only an image.
It is a voice.
It is a prayer.
It is a gift of hope.
Through my work, I seek to create spaces where viewers can feel seen, where compassion becomes visible, and where love stands as an act of resistance in a world that needs healing.