The Artist Emmanuel Apraku (a.k.a Ray Styles) was born in Accra capital city of Ghana, on the 31st January 1988, had his junior and senior high school education at Accra New Town Experimental and Accra Academy respectively. Like many other prominent artists in his country, he enrolled to study art in College of Art, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology where he specialized in animation and video production and graduated with a first Class Honors Bachelor degree in Communication Design. He is the last son from a family of four siblings.

#OVERFLOW First Displayed @ TLOTA

He does Oil, Acrylic, Pastel but in recent times specializes in Pencil Portraiture with the smudging technique. He has been doing portraits for about seven years now and has constantly been improving his pencil technique. Among his portraits are that of Asantehene, Otumfour Osei Tutu, Dr Michael Agyekum Addo (CEO of KAMA), Afia Appiah (Hedge Ghana), Chris Bosh (NBA player). He held a solo art exhibition of some of his drawings in 2010 at Hedge Ghana in east Legon, Accra that received a good elite audience. Again, participate as main exhibit in THE LORDS OF THE ART (TLOTA) where he first unveiled his mind-blowing piece titled ‘OVERFLOW’. He does realistic portraiture and has an eye for details that makes his style unique as compared to many other artists. Again, in recent times, he turned to the street art direction where everything he does on paper now he does on walls. Graffiti is the name. This he uses Spray cans and combines colors beautifully into very creative wall art. He does not go the vandal way but on commission. He had the opportunity to “Graffiti” a well known building which happens to be a radio station, XFm” or more precisely media house in Osu-Ghana.
Currently, he is working with a reputable Advertising Agency as a Creative Visual analysis. He has dreams of becoming the world’s renowned artist and with what the world has already seen from this young man, the sky can only be a fitting starting point for him.

Ray was part of TLOTA from the initial stage and was one of the lead exhibitor at the exhibition. He is the lead and brain behind all graphic arts for TLOTA.

He decided to start making nice people  look ugly and forgot Me. I never bore.Enjoy his caricature pieces visit penciledcelebrities for more.