
Print Price: £140
Original Price: £3,700
Titled Full of Knowledge, this work is part of Nyornuwofia’s Teachers series that pays homage to the quiet brilliance, dedication, and excellence of teachers. This series suggests that teaching is a continuous pouring of one’s self into others in the ecosystem of knowledge generation. Teachers shape thought, nurture curiosity, and create rooms and pathways through which humanity understands itself.
The silhouetted figures in this series are inscribed with illustrations of her stylised figures, with numbers and idioms symbolic of learning and education. The teacher in this series is centred as a shaper of the world and of humanity; yet paradoxically, they are often underpaid, overlooked, and spoken of in passing gratitude in her part of the world.
| Category | Education |
|---|---|
| Original size | 100 x 100cm |
| Print Size | 29.7 x 42cm |
| Material | Acrylic |
| Medium | Painting |
| Rarity | Unique |
| Signature | Signed bottom of painting |
Being originally an autodidact artist, Ghanaian painter and musician Nyornuwofia Agorsor (b. 1983) supplemented her personally garnered skills with some studies at Kofi Agorsor’s studio. As an instrumentalist, songwriter, composer and performer, she is also the vivacious lead vocalist of the Agorsor Band.
Her works draw from certain esoteric African knowledge systems of education, which, in their fullness, train and tune the mind in order to bring forth one’s own creative genius. Nyornuwofia believes that there is an urgent need for Africa to change her servitude system of education, which, according to her, does little to encourage practicality, lacking the potential to nurture and grow the minds that will exploit and add value to our human and natural resources.
Employing mathematical and geometrical symbols, classroom spaces, and intelligible and unintelligible texts, she captures, sometimes with humour or satire, the position of Africa today, Africa tomorrow, and Africa yesterday. All come in the guise of pure stretches of colour and drawings tinged with an alluring childlike naiveté.






Paula’s early years were spent in Senegal, Angola, Venezuela, and Spain, before continuing her life journey in Germany and Switzerland. Growing up immersed in such diverse cultures and landscapes, she witnessed firsthand the interconnected and multi-layered challenges faced by both people and forests—and the urgent need to protect them.
Motivated by these experiences, Paola pursued a Master’s degree in Forestry and Environmental Engineering at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM, Spain), followed by a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland). Over more than a decade, she contributed as a scientist at Swiss research institutes like WSL and Agroscope, exploring the impacts of climate change on forests and agriculture.
Recognising the gap between scientific research and practical business solutions, Paula transitioned into sustainability consulting at Quantis. There, she helped forestry and food & beverage companies move beyond business as usual to business at its best—operating within planetary boundaries. Her expertise includes forest carbon accounting, no-deforestation policies, nature-based climate solutions and developing innovative, science-based strategies. She has partnered with global organisations such as WWF, the World Cocoa Foundation and the Science Based Targets initiatives for climate (SBTi) and nature (SBTN).
Beyond her scientific and consulting work, Paola is passionate about empowering the next generation. She currently volunteers as a facilitator for The Earth Foundation in Geneva, empowering teenagers worldwide to transform their sustainability ideas into meaningful action within their communities. Raised in a family of artists and driven by a passion to make science accessible, Paula now collaborates with Sycomore to harness the power of art in fixing the world. Through vivid creativity and compelling storytelling, she believes art can awaken hearts, inspire change, mobilise resources, and unite us all in the urgent quest to address our planet’s climate and biodiversity crises.
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