Use Beautification Of Environment For Child Development – Artist

An Abuja-based artist, Mr Ononiwu George, called on parents to beautify their environment for proper development of their children.

He told newsmen in Abuja that colours could inspire children and create a positive mind set in them.

“Children like colours because they have developmental effects on them, and it has been proven scientifically that colours play a vital role in child development,’’ George said.

He also said that children’s toys and clothing were made of colourful materials because this would help in developing them both mentally and psychically.

“The value of colours is to inspire positive vision in young people, because what children see affects their minds.

“When they see brightness and colourfulness, they create in them the ability to recreate what they see in different ways.

“The beauty they perceive in their environment inspires them to recreate that beauty in other ways.

“They can recreate it mathematically or geographically. They can recreate in every endeavour, and they can generate from within themselves,’’ the artist said.

George, who operates an arts shop at the Silverbird Gallery in Abuja, said colours helped to channel the talents in children towards a colourful and positive dimension.

He said that children, who grow up around beautiful and colourful environment, tend to have positive mind set, and are better than children who grow up around a violent or “un-coloured’’ environment.

“For those children who grow up on the street and only see what is violent, people fighting each other, hunger and disease, there is no way their minds will be tuned towards beauty.

“Their situation can only change by divine intervention.

“Children who grow up around a colourful environment are inspired positively and they tend to have a positive influence, which also help them to become positively minded in the society,’’ the artist said.