Verbal Description Transcript: Steven Onoja, painted in 2018. Oil on canvas. About 5 feet 3 inches high by 4 feet 7 inches wide. A young Black man sits facing us and looking directly at us, unsmiling. He’s shown from the hips upwards. He is dressed with a clear sense of style and flair, in a willow green suit over a white collarless shirt. His head, in a black beret, is tipped slightly to his right – that’s our left as we face the picture. He wears the beret tilted to the right side of his head. This leaves his left ear exposed, together with the area of shaved head above. We don’t see what he’s sitting on – perhaps a stool or backless chair. His right knee is raised, his right ankle resting on his left leg. A small patch of bare ankle is visible at the bottom center edge of the canvas. His hands are clasped on his raised knee. The two hands seem to be holding something white, but it’s been left undefined so it’s not clear what it is – a small camera perhaps. This lack of detail is a feature of the simplified style of the painting. The artist’s signature – ‘Amoako’ – and the date – 2018 – are sketched onto this white area. The man’s suit, too, has been painted in a flattened, simplified style, without detail: the green of the jacket and trousers appears as a single expanse of color, painted with sweeping brush strokes. The skin of the man’s face, hands and ankle are painted with much thicker, fluid streaks of paint. The man is sitting against a flatly painted background – white with a hint of blue gray.