Richard Yumba Ngombe
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
My name is Richard Ngombe Yumba, and I come from a background where art has always been part of my life. I began drawing with my father when I was very young, and since then, art has remained a way for me to understand and express the world around me.
In my artistic practice, I work primarily with acrylic painting, charcoal, and graphite pencils. My drawings often explore hyper realistic representation, focusing on emotion, expression and Portraits. While my paintings i use dry acrylic techniques to create rough, textured surfaces that symbolize struggle and resilience. Through both mediums, I aim to translate inner experiences into visible form where every mark or layer tells part of a story.
Statement
My art is rooted in personal experience, memory, and identity. The loss of the the closest people and the ongoing war in my home country, the Democratic Republic of Congo and other countries in the World such has Sudan or Palestine have deeply shaped my vision and motivation as an artist.
Painting and drawing are my ways of processing emotion and confronting social and political realities. I often work with texture, contrast, and layered surfaces using the roughness of acrylic paint and the precision of graphite and charcoal to mirror the duality of fragility and strength.
My themes revolve around justice, peace, hope, and beauty, exploring how art can speak for unheard stories and bring visibility to human struggles that are often overlooked.
For me, every piece is a dialogue between pain and healing, past and present, silence and voice.
My goal is to create art that not only reflects my story but also invites others to reflect on their own finding connection, empathy, and strength through visual experience.