Mphinyane finds love in African face portraits

Mphinyane, famed as Otsile the Artist, fell in love with drawing from primary school and continued with it up to senior school. In an interview with Arts&Culture, the young man explained that he was doing fine art where he focused on portraits. He added that his art combines materials such as pencils, charcoals, etc. “I was inspired to pursue art by my former art classmates. We used to compete in every art project and or art test. We would do our best just to prove who was a better artist in class. That made me find it easy to play around with my pencils until I sold my first portrait in 2023.

"I started learning how to draw when I was still in primary school. In fact, I loved drawing just like any other boy until I joined an art class at junior and senior schools to learn more and I did great in it,” he said. Mphinyane said he is a business-minded person but because art was close to his heart, he chose it and made it his business idea so that it would be easy for him to run a business idea that is close to his heart.