Senzo Nhlapo is a street artist who hails from the township Soweto where he studied fine arts at Funda Centre.There is something striking about the recent artworks of visual artist Senzo Nhlapo. It's not the approach and the artist's creativity, but the blend of colours that he plays with. When he started more than 18 years ago, his focus was on depicting township and urban life through oil on canvas, sculpture and print-making. His technique advanced when he incorporated video and graphic design. His latest art, which he defines as African Pop Art, is a kaleidoscope of colours offset with cubism of the works of famous artists like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Born in 1979 in Mofolo, Soweto, his work orbits between art, design, architecture and poetry. His fascinated by colour, and his works have a lot of bright colours to bring life to them. The technique started a long time ago while I was studying in Switzerland," he says. He says although inspiration for his latest creations comes from African masks, he has also been influenced by famous artists such as Durant Sihlali, Pat Mautloa, Kay Hassan, Mbongeni Buthelezi just to mention the few. His recent artworks spot colourful and larger-than-life eyes and long noses usually seen on African masks. His colourful art works can be seen around Soweto. Nhlapo normally works from his home studio and at the boxshop, but when he is short on inspiration he does murals for clients. "Working on these murals attracts international media, and through this still art we inspire young people and the community," he says. He celebrates South African cultural diversity by creating digital prints that are later incorporated into other media such as video to form installations. This intricate relationship is illustrated through Nhlapo's technique of combining different photographs and weaving these together to create a new reality. "The works focus on the enlargement that creates a new multicultural South Africa, where people of different cultures, lifestyles, traditions, habits, cuisine and music live together.