One-year-old Ghanaian boy makes Guinness World Records as world’s youngest male artist

A Ghanaian boy, Ace-Liam Nana Sam Ankrah, has made the Guinness World Records as the world’s youngest male artist at the age of 1 year 152 days.

“At the age of one year and 152 days old, little Ace-Liam Nana Sam Ankrah from Ghana is the world’s youngest artist,” GWR said on Wednesday.

Little Ace-Liam who started showing interest in art works and paintings from six-month-old has over 20 paintings created by him.

He participated in his first group exhibition, The Soundout Premium Exhibition at the Museum of Science and Technology in Ghana.

There, a total of 10 of his artworks were displayed and put up for sale. Out of those 10, nine were sold during the exhibition.

Ace-Liam loves the feel of the paint on his hands, the bright colours and the ability to express himself through painting, GWR said.

Speaking about the boy’s phenomenal talent at that tender age, his mother, Chantelle, also an artist, said she discovered Ace-Liam’s passion for painting when he was just 6 months old.

“While learning to crawl, I spread out a piece of unstretched canvas on the floor and dropped some paint on it as a way to keep him busy while I worked on a commission painting,” Chantelle explained.

“He […] ended up spreading the paint all over the canvas, and in the process he created his first masterpiece titled The crawl.