Atta Kwami obituary

Painter, printmaker and sculptor whose colourful work drew on the vernacular art of his native GhanaSince July, visitors to Folkestone harbour have encountered a double archway brightly painted with a geometric pattern in an array of colours. A part of the Kent town’s triennial art festival, it is the work of the Ghanaian-born artist Atta Kwami, who has died aged 65.Kwami, who lived in both Kumasi, Ghana’s second city, and, from 2009, Loughborough, in Leicestershire, said the sculptu