artist highlights- July
Daisy Buyanzi
Born and raised in Nairobi, she is a self-trained visual artist who graduated with Finance and IBA degrees from USIU-Africa. After a year of being part of the corporate world, she decided to take a leap and follow her passion and became a full time artist in 2018. With her art, she tries to get closer to the simple beauty overfilling this world by using bold and vibrant colors, which is the core of her creativity in her art pieces and murals. She mainly uses acrylics and kitenge fabric as her medium, to express her ideas that gravitate towards the African woman and Mother Nature.
Edwin Jongo
Edwin Jongo, is a Nairobi based artist born in 1990.He started drawing at an early age,untill joining high school, where he attended his first art class. He later joined Buru Buru institute of fine arts(Bifa), where he did a certificate in interior design. Professionally, he started painting in 2010. He mainly focuses on the lifestyle of the common mwananchi,with his preferred materials being used cutting and grinding discs,thin piping cord, which are stuck on a canvas to make people with geometrical shaped features.
George Ongeri Omesa
George Ongeri Omesa is a Kenyan contemporary artist going by the artistic name of Onkoba. His creations are inspired by a desire to understand the simplicity of human existence, life and or survival in both absolute and relative terms. George uses nature symbolically to express what is on the mind of us human beings in subjects that interest him: love, hate, hope, desire, ambition, social challenges, spirituality, politics, economics and environmental destruction.
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