PAINTING ON MUGIE RANCH - JANUARY 2018

spent 9 wonderful days on Mugie painting portraits of a beautiful Pokot lady, a young Samburu girl and a Samburu warrior. 

SORO NYOMON (thank you in Pokot) CHEMKEYA FOR SITTING FOR ME !!

P A I N T I N G   T H E   B U T T E R F L Y   P E O P L E

Finding Pilisip and Eliza was not the easiest thing... walked around Mugie for a few hours looking for them as they were not at the meeting point.. the old station under the hill.

Pilisip, the Samburu Moran seems to be a very popular man.. Endless phone calls to his girlfriend ..and other people about Cows while I was painting him.

F A K E  P L A S T I C  F L OW E R S .  The feathers from his floral headdress kept flying away in the wind, so I gave him my mirror (must use the mirror for a 'fresh eye' when painting.. always) to fix his feathers back into place. I couldn't get it back for a while though, because he liked using it too, to look at himself.

 T H E   H O U S E   O F   C O L O U R

Painting the Carpet Menders in Ali's Beautiful Carpet Shop in Nairobi. 

July 2018 CAMEL SAFARI, NORTH KENYA.

THE BIG BEAUTIFUL NORTH.

Me, Tom, 35 camels and 15 Samburu.

4 days wandering through the Ndoto Mountains. Untouched wild Kenya! Painting along the way. we woke up before light, walked to the next camp and feeling totally exhausted set up our painting stuff. Our paintbrushes racing with the fast changing light. Occasionally I had to hold onto the paper so it didn’t blow away in the wind on the top of LKanto the final camp.

August 2018 LAMU

ANIDAN CHILDREN’S HOME ARTS AND CRAFTS CENTER

A 2 week residency at Anidan in Lamu with the amazing artist Rebecca James. We worked with the very talented Anidan kids painting portraits from life on fabric which we dyed using natural dyes found in Lamu.

FEBRUARY 2019 LAMU ARTS AND MUSIC FESTIVAL

Back to to beautiful Lamu for the art festival. Spent a week painting the old town and I went out in the early hours of the mornings and painted the sea front on a Lamu style boat.

PAINTING ON BEAUTIFUL SUYIAN , LAIKIPIA, KENYA

MAY 2019

Had so much fun painting Douglas and Marieni from the Dorobo Tribe at wonderful Suyian Soul camp. One of the days I painted camels when they had returned to their boma in the fabulous light of the golden hour. Very friendly and curious camels were desperate to try and take a nibble of my easel and taste my paint.. not the lead white please!!