Nwaneri Kelechi Charles born(1994) is a self-taught artist, born in Lagos State, Nigeria. He focused on the sciences during his early schooling years and went on to obtain a Bachelors degree in Agricultural Extension from the University of Nigeria in 2015. Inspired by Pencil Artists such as Kelvin Okafor, Arinze Stanley and Ken Nwadiogbu, he initially focused on Pencil Realism and has evolved to introducing other mediums such as Acrylic paints, collages, Watercolors and Oil paints.
Kelechi’s works stand somewhere between genres of Photorealism, surrealism, Post-modernism and contemporary art but perfectly fits into what he calls Contemporary Surrealism because; his work deals with issues of our present time, his use of multimedia and the conceptual feel in his work his works.