A renowned author, artist, and illustrator, Dr. Folashade Elizabeth Olukoya has received the EuroStar Luminary Award for Creative Excellence. She is the wife of the General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries Worldwide and President of the women foundation.

The EuroStar Luminary Award recognises creative work that transcends disciplines and borders, including literature, visual arts, and storytelling, outstanding achievements.

The aim is to recognise and celebrate the leaders, innovators, and trailblazers who are setting benchmarks of excellence in their respective fields.

Receiving the award, Mrs Olukoya said as an artist, her mission is to seek women’s unique roles and support their healing through counselling and creativity expression.

She revealed that through her artwork many women have rediscovered confidence, purpose and resilience. She explained that her works have built a strong network of support for women emphasied that when art and emphaty intersects there is transformation.

Olukoya added that through her artworks, women’s voices have been reclaimed , rebuilding their self worth.

Her words” I am deeply honoured and genuinely grateful to receive this distinguished award. My belief that creativity is a divine gift to bless lives and shape culture, as we can see in the Bible Ephesians 2:10, “We are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” By God’s Grace, in my art, I transform women’s stories into sculptural forms -symbols of renewal strength and hope ; not suffering because for thirty years as a counsellor, I have seen women accross continents suffer from emotional wounds due to domestic abuse and social marginalisation often silenced, they lack safe spaces to acknowledge, hear , or transform their pains.”

Olukoya, maintained that every woman carries a God-given destiny, and creativity is one of the powerful channels through which that destiny can be expressed,”

She expressed her resolution to always create works that illuminate truth and empower women.