About

I’m Marcia Chinyei, working under the name MARACHI. I’m a Sheffield-based artist of Jamaican heritage. I paint emotionally expressive portraits of Black women, exploring the quiet, often unspoken emotional moments that exist between overwhelm and calm.

 

Working primarily in acrylic, I use posture, gaze and natural hair as ways of expressing emotion. The locs in my paintings often shift, float or stretch beyond the body, becoming symbols of thought, memory and feeling while celebrating Afro hair in its natural form.

 

My work is shaped by lived experience, my Jamaican heritage and the visual language of the Black diaspora. Ultimately, I make paintings for people who feel deeply—offering moments of quiet recognition where tenderness, introspection and resilience can exist without explanation.

See selected and upcoming Exhibitions here