Wole Ayoola is a contemporary Nigerian artist born in Ile-Ife, Nigeria in 1968. Wole is an author for Evans Publishers Nigeria on fine art titles. He had participated in different group art exhibitions and his maiden solo exhibition titled “The Route” was staged at The Cornelius Adepegba Museum of African Arts, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, in September – October 2018. Wole Ayoola is now a full time studio artist practising as a painter and graphic designer. He states: “As an artist, I’m a story teller; my works in colours and lines are created to explore my environment and tell these stories in diverse forms and texturise with “Ona” a concept of Yoruba traditional linear patterns. These are prevalent in my works”.