Kenyan Jeffie Magina for example has turned from paintings and prints to small sculptures, using stone he finds around his compound in Nairobi’s Umoja l estate.
The free mentoring programme established there helped many young artists to acquire some of the basic skills in drawing, painting and print.
With framed woodcut prints placed on easels metres apart along the roadside to ensure social distancing, George Ongeri Omesa is holding Sunday exhibitions from 10am to 4pm.
Notable were several dynamic prints of bulls — typified by his Courage series and the powerful Nyamgombenyinge Star (one of many cows) — which demonstrated that Omesa is getting the fundamental drawing right; preferable for me at least to his more surreal efforts of people morphing into trees, demonstrating the close relationship between humans and nature and how that affects our thinking.
Encouraged by the support of the local community and the interest shown from passers-by on foot, cycle and in cars, he is now planning to make it a regular event, expanded to include other artists interested in taking their work directly to the public.
