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Meet Ace-Liam Ankrah, a Ghana toddler who has set the record as the world’s youngest male artist . His mother, Chantelle Kukua Eghan, says it all started by accident when her son, who at the time was six months old, discovered her acrylic paints . Eghan, an artist and founder of Arts and Cocktails Studio, a bar that that offers painting lessons in Ghana’s capital, Accra, said she was looking for a way to keep her boy busy while working on her own paintings.

“I spread out a canvas on the floor and added paint to it, and then in the process of crawling he ended up spreading all the colors on the canvas,” she said. And that’s how his first artwork, The Crawl , was born, Eghan, 25, told The Associated Press. After that and with his mother’s prodding, Ace-Liam kept on painting.



Eghan decided to apply for the record last June. In November, Guinness World Records told her that to break a previous record, her son needed to exhibit and sell paintings. She arranged for Ace-Liam’s first exhibition at the Museum of Science and Technology in Accra in January, where nine out of 10 of his pieces listed were sold.

She declined to say for how much the paintings sold. They were on their way. Then, Guinness World Records confirmed the record in a statement and last week declared that “at the age of 1 year 152 days, little Ace-Liam Nana Sam Ankrah from Ghana is the world’s youngest male artist.

” Guinness World Records did not immediately respond to an Associated Press query a.

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