@artsbytadeo

The gallery

Midnight Freedom
〔 Midnight Freedom · 37 × 30 in 〕
The Frog and Its Lily Pad
〔 The Frog and Its Lily Pad · 24 × 18 in 〕
Lazy Summer
〔 Lazy Summer 〕
Spirit Celebrates
〔 Spirit Celebrates 〕
The Crows and the Mystery Man
〔 The Crows and the Mystery Man 〕
Double Take
〔 Double Take 〕
The Alchemist
〔 The Alchemist 〕
As She Weeps
〔 As She Weeps · 36 × 24 in 〕
The Offering
〔 The Offering · 44 × 36 in 〕
Joyous Africa
〔 Joyous Africa 〕
Cub Life
〔 Cub Life 〕
Woman’s Scar
〔 Woman’s Scar 〕
Playing in the Past
〔 Playing in the Past 〕
Triple Awareness
〔 Triple Awareness 〕
The Harley, The Indian, The Cowboy, and The Toro
〔 The Harley, The Indian, The Cowboy, and The Toro · 24 × 24 in 〕
Undecided
〔 Undecided · 44 × 34 in 〕
Lavender Bloom
〔 Lavender Bloom · 48 × 30 in 〕
Missing You
〔 Missing You · 48 × 48 in 〕
Sisterhood in Bloom
〔 Sisterhood in Bloom · 18 × 24 in 〕
Blue Marley
〔 Blue Marley · 18 × 24 in 〕
The Dance of Destiny
〔 The Dance of Destiny · 18 × 48 in 〕
Dual Flame
〔 Dual Flame · 48 × 36 in 〕
Armor of Love
〔 Armor of Love · 40 × 40 in 〕
Love Still Rises
〔 Love Still Rises · 24 × 24 in 〕
You Are Not Alone
〔 You Are Not Alone · 18 × 48 in 〕
African Royalty
〔 African Royalty · 24 × 18 in 〕
Young Love Prayers
〔 Young Love Prayers · 24 × 18 in 〕
The Many Faces Within
〔 The Many Faces Within · 24 × 36 in 〕
Beyond The Open Door
〔 Beyond The Open Door · 24 × 34 in 〕
The Fire Within
〔 The Fire Within · 18 × 24 in 〕
Breaking Free
〔 Breaking Free · 36 × 36 in 〕
Echos of Humanity
〔 Echos of Humanity · 24 × 18 in 〕

Index

01 Midnight Freedom37 × 30 in Acrylic on plexiglass2024 Available
02 The Frog and Its Lily Pad24 × 18 in Acrylic on plexiglass2024 Available
03 Lazy Summer Acrylic on plexiglass2026 Available
04 Spirit Celebrates Acrylic on plexiglass2026 Available
05 The Crows and the Mystery Man Acrylic on plexiglass2026 Available
06 Double Take Acrylic on plexiglass2026 Available
07 The Alchemist Acrylic on plexiglass2026 Available
08 As She Weeps36 × 24 in Acrylic on plexiglass2024 Available
09 The Offering44 × 36 in Acrylic on plexiglass2025 Available
10 Joyous Africa Acrylic on plexiglass2026 Available
11 Cub Life Acrylic on plexiglass2026 Available
12 Woman’s Scar Acrylic on plexiglass2026 Available
13 Playing in the Past Acrylic on plexiglass2026 Available
14 Triple Awareness Acrylic on plexiglass2026 Available
15 The Harley, The Indian, The Cowboy, and The Toro24 × 24 in Acrylic on plexiglass2026 Available
16 Undecided44 × 34 in Acrylic on plexiglass2026 Available
17 Lavender Bloom48 × 30 in Acrylic on plexiglass2026 Available
18 Missing You48 × 48 in Acrylic on plexiglass2026 Available
19 Sisterhood in Bloom18 × 24 in Water Color on plexiglass2024 Available
20 Blue Marley18 × 24 in Acrylic on plexiglass2024 Available
21 The Dance of Destiny18 × 48 in Acrylic on plexiglass2024 Available
22 Dual Flame48 × 36 in Acrylic on plexiglass2024 Available
23 Armor of Love40 × 40 in Acrylic on plexiglass2024 Available
24 Love Still Rises24 × 24 in Acrylic on plexiglass2024 Available
25 You Are Not Alone18 × 48 in Acrylic on plexiglass2024 Available
26 African Royalty24 × 18 in Acrylic on plexiglass2024 Available
27 Young Love Prayers24 × 18 in Acrylic on plexiglass2024 Available
28 The Many Faces Within24 × 36 in Acrylic on plexiglass2024 Available
29 Beyond The Open Door24 × 34 in Acrylic on plexiglass2024 Available
30 The Fire Within18 × 24 in Acrylic on plexiglass2024 Available
31 Breaking Free36 × 36 in Acrylic on plexiglass2024 Available
32 Echos of Humanity24 × 18 in Acrylic on plexiglass2024 Available
Midnight Freedom

Midnight Freedom

Size
37 × 30 in
Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2024
Status
Available

A woman rides through a world caught between dream and reality, seated upon a white horse glowing with lavender, silver, and moonlight.

Her deep blue dress moves like water in the wind, while her hair streams freely behind her-a spirit that refuses to be contained.

The white horse represents strength, purity, and spiritual passage. The distant castle speaks of the life she has traveled from, while the open path ahead represents everything still waiting for her.

Near the bottom, a butterfly emerges from the movement of her gown: transformation. She is no longer the woman she once was. She has stepped beyond, fear beyond limitation, and into her own.

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The Frog and Its Lily Pad

The Frog and Its Lily Pad

Size
24 × 18 in
Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2024
Status
Available

In a pond filled with movement, color, and life, a small frog rests quietly upon its lily pad. Above him, the dragonfly passes through, the flower opens toward the light, and the water carries its own rhythm. The Frog and Its Lily Pad is about finding your own place of peace in a world that never stops moving.

Sometimes the smallest place can become your whole sanctuary.

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Lazy Summer

Lazy Summer

Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2026
Status
Available

Lazy Summer captures a quiet moment when time seems to slow down. Across cool blue water, distant travelers move gently beneath tha summer sun while a burst of color brings life into the stillness.

It reflects freedom, peace, and the simple beauty of letting yourself drift without rushing toward anything.

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Spirit Celebrates

Spirit Celebrates

Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2026
Status
Available

Spirit Celebrates captures a moment when music, color, movement, and human connection become one.

Beneath the bright umbrella, the figures gather as if the room itself has come alive. The guitar becomes the heartbeat of the scene while the bold floor patterns and expressive colors create a rhythm of their own.

This painting is about celebration beyond the physical - a celebration of culture, friendship, music, and the spirit within us. The figure are not simply listening to music; they are surrounded by it, becoming part of its energy.

When the soul hears its music, the spirit celebrates.

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The Crows and the Mystery Man

The Crows and the Mystery Man

Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2026
Status
Available

Beneath a cold, restless sky, two crows circle above a solitary figure standing between two barren trees. The man has no face and no clear identity - only a presence. He could represent the past, a secret, a memory, or the part of ourselves that remains hidden from the world.

The crows become witnesses. They watch from above as though they know something the mystery man does not - or perhaps something he refuses to reveal. The leafless trees create a landscape stripped to its truth, while the pale light overhead suggests that even in darkness, something is still watching, searching, and waiting to be discovered.

The Crows and the Mystery Man is about the unknown things that follow us through life-the unanswered questions, silent memories, and truths that eventually find their way into the light.

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Double Take

Double Take

Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2026
Status
Available

Double Take is about the faces we show, the faces we carry, and the parts of ourselves that sometimes exist at the same time. The overlapping figures create the feeling of seeing someone twice, but each look reveals something different. The bold colors, fractured shapes, eyes, fingerprints, and handprints suggest identity, memory, emotion, and the marks people leave behind. This piece asks the viewer to look again. The first glance sees color and faces. The second look begins to uncover the story beneath them.

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The Alchemist

The Alchemist

Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Framed
Year
2026
Status
Available

"The Alchemist is about transformation-not simply changing what we see, but changing what we understand.

Fragmented faces, watching eyes, geometric forms, and symbolic shapes feel like pieces of thought, emotion, memory, and spirit being mixed together in one visual laboratory. The alchemist in this work is not searching for gold in the traditional sense, but for meaning. Every broken shape becomes an ingredient, every eye represents awareness, and every figure carries another perspective.

Out of disorder comes discovery.

For TADEO, the painting reflects the power to take struggle, imagination, faith, pain, love, and uncertainty and transform them into something entirely new.

The real alchemy is turning life itself into art."

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As She Weeps

As She Weeps

Size
36 × 24 in
Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Year
2024
Status
Available

There are moments when the weight of the world cannot be held in.

In those moments, she weeps.

But even in her sorrow, there is beauty.

She is not broken-she is becoming.

Through every tear, she is washed clean.

Through every storm, she is transformed.

She carries the pain, the colors, and the seeds of a new life.

This is not the end.

This is her becoming.

She is art.

She is strength.

She is freedom.

She is love.

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The Offering

The Offering

Size
44 × 36 in
Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2025
Status
Available

She does not reach -she receives. In her stillness, the world speaks.

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Joyous Africa

Joyous Africa

Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2026
Status
Available

Joyous Africa is a celebration of rhythm, movement, ancestry, and community.

The figures appear throughout the landscape like memories carried across generations - dancing, playing drums, gathering, and expressing life through movement. The warm golden background represents the earth, the sun, and the enduring spirit of tine African continent.

Rather than showing one single moment, TADEO creates a world alive with energy.

The scattered figures become a visual rhythm, almost like music moving across the surface.

PROEO

Joyous Africa honors the beauty of cultural expression and the joy that survives, travels, and continues from one generation to the next.

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Cub Life

Cub Life

Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2026
Status
Available

Cub Life captures the fierce tenderness of protection, family, and survival. The powerful tiger watches over the young cubs beneath her, creating a visual story about strength being pasied from one generation to the next. The cubs represent innocence, growth, and the beginning of their own journey, while the larger tiger symbolizes guidance, sacrifice, and the instinct to protect what belongs to you. The work is about more than wildlife - it reflects family life itself. Before the cub can become powerful, it must first be protected, taught, and given the freedom to discover its own strength.

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Woman’s Scar

Woman’s Scar

Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2026
Status
Available

Woman's Scar explores the visible and invisible marks carried through life. The solitary female figure climbs illuminated steps, moving through a storm of memory, pain, and transformation. Her body bears the weight of experience, yet her posture continues forward-revealing resilience, survival, and grace.

The rising path suggests healing, while the vivid atmosphere around her reflects the emotional fire that surrounds every journey toward wholeness.

In this work, the scar is not weakness, but testimony.

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Playing in the Past

Playing in the Past

Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2026
Status
Available

'Playing in the Past' is a reflection on the music, people, and memories that remain alive long after the moment has passed. Three musicians exist inside a storm of color, as though the past has opened for a moment and allowed us to hear them play again. The work speaks to how music carries history forward-connecting generations through sound, memory, and emotion.

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Triple Awareness

Triple Awareness

Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2026
Status
Available

Triple Awareness presents three faces as three states of consciousness-separate, yet connected through color, pattern, and form. The fragmented shapes across their faces reflect memory, struggle, culture, strength, love, and transformation. The central figure creates balance, while the surrounding faces suggest what came before and what exists around us now. The heart adds the final message: awareness is not only about what we see, but also about what we feel.

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The Harley, The Indian, The Cowboy, and The Toro

The Harley, The Indian, The Cowboy, and The Toro

Size
24 × 24 in
Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2026
Status
Available

The Harley, the Indian, the Cowboy and the Toro brings together four powerful symbols of the American road and the untamed spirit. The cowboy represents independence and survival.

The Toro carries strength, pride, danger, and determination. The motorcycle, marked by the Indian emblem on the gas tank, connects the work to history, movement, and the freedom of the open road.

TADEO's loose lines, splashes of color, and unfinished gestures allow the figures to move between reality and memory. Together they tell one story: strength, freedom, history, and the courage to keep riding forward.

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Undecided

Undecided

Size
44 × 34 in
Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2026
Status
Available

Undecided captures a woman suspended between strength and vulnerability, caught in the private moment before a choice is made. The bold yellow background pushes her forward while the black hat feels almost like a shield.

Her expression leaves the final decision unresolved, allowing the viewer to decide what she may be thinking, feeling, or facing.

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Lavender Bloom

Lavender Bloom

Size
48 × 30 in
Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2026
Status
Available

A radiant field of lavender roses blooms across a golden horizon, surrounded by dragonflies and butterflies - symbols of transformation, grace, and spiritual renewal.

Each flower rises like a memory preserved in light, representing the beauty that emerges when the soul chooses to bloom despite life's storms.

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Missing You

Missing You

Size
48 × 48 in
Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2026
Status
Available

Eyes closed, but everything is seen.

In the quiet space within, memory blooms in color-butterflies drift through what once was, and love lingers where presence no longer lives.

Missing you isn't absence... it's feeling you everywhere.

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Sisterhood in Bloom

Sisterhood in Bloom

Size
18 × 24 in
Medium
Water Color on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2024
Status
Available

Three women, connected by blood, spirit, and silence.

They bloom in their own time, in their own way.

This is a celebration of sisterhood, strength, and the beauty that grows when we water each other with love.

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Blue Marley

Blue Marley

Size
18 × 24 in
Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2024
Status
Available

Blue Marley captures the spirit of a musical legend through rhythm, color, and emotion.

Against a powerful field of blue, Marley emerges through fragments of vibrant color-almost as though the music itself is constructing his face and body.

The raised hand and upward gaze suggest a moment of surrender, reflection, and spiritual connection. The blues speak of depth and struggle, while the flashes of red, green, gold, white, and purple represent life, freedom, culture, and hope.

Rather than simply portraying a man, TADEO captures a feeling-the enduring voice of music, resistance, love, and liberation.

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The Dance of Destiny

The Dance of Destiny

Size
18 × 48 in
Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2024
Status
Available

Two peacocks meet beneath a celestial sky, their magnificent feathers stretching outward like two different worlds coming together. At the center, their bodies turn toward one another in an intimate dance surrounded by butterflies, flowers, stars, and distant moons.

One bird carries deep blues and greens - the colors of mystery, growth, and the earth. The other shines in white and silver, representing light, purity, and transformation.

Between them is the moment when opposites recognize something familiar in cach other.

"The Dance of Destiny" is a story of love, attraction, and divine timing. Some souls travel completely different paths only to discover that they were always being guided toward the same meeting place.

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Dual Flame

Dual Flame

Size
48 × 36 in
Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2024
Status
Available

A mirrored spirit unfolds in silence-two forms hidden within the wings, bound by an unseen force. Gold currents trace the movement of energy between them, flowing through memory, desire, and transformation. Set against a field of deep red, the piece speaks of passion, separation, and the eternal pull between two souls evolving as one. This is not just a butterfly - it is the moment love becomes reflection, and reflection becomes fire.

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Armor of Love

Armor of Love

Size
40 × 40 in
Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2024
Status
Available

Two souls stand divided by the river-one armored in strength, the other bowed in reflection-while love remains suspended between them.

The rose extends as an offering of truth, the butterfly as a symbol of transformation, reminding us that even when distance separates hearts, growth is still possible.

The four-leaf clover in red echoes the four corners of the earth-love grounded, tested, and enduring.

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Love Still Rises

Love Still Rises

Size
24 × 24 in
Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2024
Status
Available

The butterfly is never alone. As it soars and lifts its wings, it carries the lavender rose-a symbol that love is still real, still fighting, still rising through the beauty and storms of life.

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You Are Not Alone

You Are Not Alone

Size
18 × 48 in
Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2024
Status
Available

Greatness never leaves-because you are not alone.

The eyes you see follow... not to watch, but to remind.

Through chaos and color, a presence remains-steady, aware.

This face carries silence, survival, and truth.

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African Royalty

African Royalty

Size
24 × 18 in
Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Framed
Year
2024
Status
Available

Two figures stand together beneath a glowing field of gold and earth, surrounded by shields that speak of heritage, protection, and ancestral strength.

The vivid red garment becomes the heartbeat of the composition - a symbol of life, courage, royalty, and sacrifice.

Their elongated forms and ceremonial presence reach beyond a single moment in history. They represent generations: those who came before, those standing today, and those still to come.

"African Royalty" is a celebration of identity, dignity, unity, and the strength carried forward through generations.

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Young Love Prayers

Young Love Prayers

Size
24 × 18 in
Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Framed
Year
2024
Status
Available

Innocence has its own language. In this prayer, a young heart speaks without words - surrounded by love, watched over by angels, and lifted by faith.

This piece is a reminder that even the smallest prayers carry the biggest power.

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The Many Faces Within

The Many Faces Within

Size
24 × 36 in
Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Framed
Year
2024
Status
Available

The Many Faces Within explores the different identities, emotions, memories, and experiences that exist inside one human being.

The fragmented face is not broken - it is layered. Each eye sees life from a different perspective, while the bold red background represents the intensity of the world surrounding us.

The contrasting shapes and colors suggest moments of joy, struggle, confusion, strength, and transformation. Together, the fragments become one figure - a reminder that everything we have lived through becomes part of who we are.

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Beyond The Open Door

Beyond The Open Door

Size
24 × 34 in
Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2024
Status
Available

Beyond the Open Door captures the quiet moment when a person stands between the world they have known and the life waiting beyond it.

A solitary figure approaches an open doorway beneath a brilliant orange umbrella. Outside, blue sky and light stretch toward the horizon, while mysterious faces and shadows remain embedded in the darker world behind him. They represent memories, struggles, voices, and experiences that have followed him throughout his journey.

The orange umbrella becomes a symbol of protection, faith, and courage.

The doorway represents opportunity-the decision to move forward even when we cannot see exactly where the road will lead.

This painting is about crossing the threshold, It reminds us that our past may always be part of us, but it does not have to determine where we go next.

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The Fire Within

The Fire Within

Size
18 × 24 in
Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2024
Status
Available

A solitary figure stands before a sweeping force of color-gold, red, yellow, and green moving like fire caught in the wind. He does not run from it. He watches.

The work speaks of those moments when life places us before something larger than ourselves: transformation, struggle, faith, and the unknown. The darkness surrounding the figure represents what has already been endured, while the explosion of light ahead represents what is still becoming.

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Breaking Free

Breaking Free

Size
36 × 36 in
Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Unmounted
Year
2024
Status
Available

Breaking Free captures the instant when the human spirit refuses to remain imprisoned. A figure rises from darkness and turbulent waters, weighed down by heavy chains, yet reaches upward toward an outstretched hand.

The chains represent the burdens we carry - our past, fear, addiction, pain, mistakes, and circumstances that try to define us. The reaching hand represents hope, faith, mercy, and the possibility of deliverance.

This work is about the moment a person decides that bondage will not be the final chapter. Even when the chains have not completely fallen away, the first act of freedom has already begun: reaching for the hand that can pull you out.

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Echos of Humanity

Echos of Humanity

Size
24 × 18 in
Medium
Acrylic on plexiglass
Mounting
Framed
Year
2024
Status
Available

Echoes of Humanity captures the movement of people through the layers of life. The fragmented black figures appear, disappear, and re-emerge against a weathered white field-like memories, struggles, and generations leaving their marks behind.

No two forms are exactly alike, yet they share the same space, reminding us that every human journey is individual while still connected to something larger.

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