Posted by ArtMatters.Info | Sep 21, 2008 | Art |
Margareta Akinyi Ochola ventured in art at the age of five when her mother bought her coloured pencils and paper and urged her to experiment with her imagination. Her first exhibition was held in her parents’ living room...
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By Ogova Ondego Published September 21, 2008 Since 1995 when she sold her first artwork at the age of four, 11- year-old Edelquinn Chiku Njambi has never looked back. Now in Standard Six, the young artist has exhibited widely,...
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At the prime age of 45, Kenyan artist and art instructor, John Diang’a Obaso, resigned from his teaching job to concentrate on running a cultural centre he had set up in the remote part of a country where professionals...
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By Ogova Ondego If you don’t like what you have, George Kabiru tells OGOVA ONDEGO, change it. Kabiru, a medical technologist who trained as an electric and medical engineer in Kenya and Britain, either makes or modifies...
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After training in pharmacy and dispensing drugs for seven years in the United States of America, Makena Mwiraria turned her back on this career in favour of the arts. Neither the razing of her African crafts shop in the Virgin...
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