Kelvin Okafor // ⓘ (born 1 November 1985)[1] is a British hyperrealist artist who specialises in pencil portraits.
[3] He was educated at St Ignatius' College in Enfield, where at the age of 15 he began to hone his talent for drawing.
[5] Awards he has won include the Catherine Petitgas Visitors Choice Prize, part of the National Open Art Competition.
[6] In a recent email interaction with Sunn, Kelvin has said that he's not threatened by advancements of AI even though AI can create realistic art in seconds because spending long hours to complete a portrait is meditation to him.
She mentions how the work of Okafor goes beyond being just 'Photorealist' drawings, and instead coins the term Emotional Realism to describe the affective nature of his artwork.