This Nigerian artist's life-size artworks are rendered with a simple ballpoint pen – and the world is sitting up and taking notice

She's always had a knack for art. From the moment she could hold a crayon in her tiny hand, she would draw on the paper her mother always had on hand for her.

As she grew older she realised art was the passion she wanted to pursue – and so she did, with a set of ballpoint pens in her talented fingers.

Jacqueline Suowari’s breathtaking body of work has been described as exciting, sublime and vibrant by critics and has made her one of her native Nigeria’s most successful artists.