Singing artist OJ Smith strives for excellence

Painting cricket heroes – a work in progress

A few months ago when The Scene sat down with acapella group Messengers Music Ministries, it emerged that its leader Oliver Joslyn Smith also known as OJ, was not just a man with a mesmerizing voice but gifted hands as well.

 OJ Smith
OJ Smith

The artist has always had a knack for drawing as far back as he could remember, since his nursery school days in fact, but has seriously been pursuing it for 17 years now. A former art teacher at the Burrowes School of Art, OJ taught for approximately seven years until recently when he decided to take a break.

He works mostly with realism, portraits, figure drawing, figure painting, surreal, landscaping and