Serge Doamba

Serge was born in Burkina Faso in 1989.  He was born deaf, and attended a school for the deaf in Burkina Faso. 

From the age of 8, he had an interest in art, and would draw as often as he could.  In 2007 he came to Mbour, Senegal to study with a gourd artist.  In 2009 he began working at Ecole Renaissance des Sourds as a teacher and art teacher.  In 2015 Serge spent 2 months in the U.S. studying different art genre with 7 different artists. 

He continues to create various pieces using different media as well as working with gourds.  His main focus at this time is creating pen and ink creations in combination with water color, accents with gold leaf, and paintings using acrylics.