Profile: Sport Art contest runner-up Francis Colley Faye

According to him, when he was at Methodist School, the school won arts competitions three times through his excellent art works.

Since he left school, Francis has established himself as an artist out of his love for the trade.

He says he is able to do a lot of work in his career partly because he inherited the skill from his grandfather.

Colley Faye, as many call him, was born on 17 May 1956 at Half DieMusanteh in the city of Bathurst now called Banjul .

Colley said his grandfather was a sculpture artist and his father a painter man; which is why he also wants to be part of the world’s renowned artists.

Francis mentioned that he now assists students, by giving them lessons that would help them, to learn arts so that it will be of help to them in their schools, colleges and the university.

“I also use to teach at the Old Jeshwang Prisons, the juvenile wing, where I teach the youths arts so that when they are discharged they can have a profession to live on,” he said.

Mr Colley-Faye thanked the Gambia National Olympic Committee (GNOC) for the wonderful job they are doing.

But he reminded them that if his works are judge fairly, then he would be the first Gambian artist to bring a gold medal on the profession to the country.