Ndoema is an artist whose life and practice span continents. Prior to painting, she worked extensively within fashion and commercial image economies, where creative origination, visual authorship, and audience calibration were central. Operating within these systems drew on an instinctive understanding of how images circulate, accrue resonance, and generate engagement across cultural contexts—a visual literacy that positioned both her and her work within the international editorial landscape, with features in leading publications worldwide including British Vogue, Vogue Italia, Marie Claire Brazil, Glamour Paris, Cosmopolitan UK, and Harper’s Bazaar, among others. (See selected press.)

Parallel to this public-facing work, she produced commissioned visual content for fashion, beauty, and luxury lifestyle clients, operating within highly collaborative, fast-paced commercial production frameworks. This sustained engagement with representation, image construction, and the external gaze continues to inform her practice, with painting functioning not as a departure but as an extension of a lifelong investigation into authorship, identity typologies, and the mechanics of visibility across disciplines.

Her debut series, Prima Materia, extends this inquiry into a materially introspective register, exploring painterly expression not as a rupture from image culture, but as a parallel site of creative investigation. Her temperature-articulated forms extend the Venetian–Baroque tradition of colorito into a contemporary key: prismatic warms and cools replace local color; edges dissolve and reassemble with Sargent-like precision. Recurring motifs—hands at the threshold, mirrored faces, figures held in suspension—frame the tension between enduring states of being and the transient nature of image-based consumption.