Defining Happiness

Happy is the man who finds wisdom and understanding. There is no such a thing as a small act of kindness that every act creates a ripple with no logical end. But, some people choose not to donate their services because they believe that somehow it devalues them by "giving them away." In truth, there is nothing that demonstrates the value of your skills more than putting them to good use for a cause you believe in.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. So if thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness to another.

(Robert Bulwer-Lytton)

Launch of The First Kenya Arts Diary

New Works

Untitled II(Immortality Series 2010) Mixed Media on Canvas

Untitled (Immortality series 2010) Mixed Media on Canvas

Criticism

Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it. If it is unfair, keep from irritation. It if is ignorant, smile. If it is justified, learn from it.

Art Law Links

It is important for artists to understand and navigate the business world the links below help understand how to sell oneself. To be more than a creative, to be a business.

http://www.artbusiness.com/legalprobs.html

http://www.artbusiness.com/pricerealistic.html

Investing In The Arts

While individuals are patrons of the art and are appreciated for it. It is another thing altogether for corporates to own art then it becomes possible for the masses to enjoy it. We all can learn from this

http://www.art2vu.co.uk/

Saatchi Online Link

http://www.saatchionline.com/wanjiku

Exhibition Review

http://www.africancolours.com/african-art-editorials/657/kenya/time_for_culinary_delight_visual_feast.htm

Art Review: The East African

Time For Culinary Delight, Visual Feast by Frank Whalley.

http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/magazine/-/434746/1034284/-/123gxdhz/-/index.html

Robert Devereux And The African Arts Trust

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=41361

Links

http://sweetfreshlove.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/the-artist-beatrice-wanjiku/

New Works

"Effacement" 71 cm x 101 cm, Mixed media on canvas 2010

"We are who we were'' 100 cm x 150 cm, Mixed media on canvas 2010

''Effacement II'' 71 cm x 101 cm, Mixed media on canvas 2010

To Be An Artist

To be an artist is to take the risk to open up your soul, look into the depth of it risk to get lost on the journey but nevertheless walk the path and gain insight with every step taken.

Exhibition Opening

"Mismatched newlyweds" and "Out of this mess" 

hanging at Le Rustique the exhibition ends 10th November 2010.

Exhibition Invitation

“This series is a cross examination of time, and of personal and collective narratives the gaze is repeatedly directed inward; drawing from a personal space to our collective and shared histories, and ultimately our intimate existence. 

The Ecomomy Of Creativity Workshop

MONEY AND MEANING "THE ART OF LIVING OFF YOUR ART" 

Money and meaning was a two day workshop, a collaboration between the Godown arts center and Natverkstan a cultural organization based in Sweden. The workshop that had been organized for professional artists within all artistic fields offered artists time to reflect and draw maps on where they want to be artistically and economically. How to be more than a one hit wonder by developing skills, relationships and maximizing ones profile and making necessary changes to arriving at their target/vision. http://www.culturalentrepreneur.se/

Leaving Nairobi

A Bit Of Touring

Heading Home

CN Towers Toronto

View from the CN Towers, Toronto 

New Works

Drawings

Fig 1 

Fig 2 (Reclining form)

Fig 3 (one minute sketch)

Glass Diaries

Glass shards

 

Making glass faces

Savannah Glass Diaries

 

 

Diary Images

Images from a glass workshop I attended at the Kitengela Glass coordinated and curated ed by Nani Croze

 

 

When the sun decided to finally shine this was the lunch sitting area. 

 

  

 

 

Kitengela Diary

Lamp shade 

I'll be away from the studio for 10 days attending a glass workshop in Kitengela, dubbed the savannah women glass workshop 2010. 

Works in Progress

Out of this mess (Diptych), 

Mixed media on canvas 2010

142cm x101.5cm

Blackjacks

Bloom

Face Series 2007

Face III (2007) Oil on canvas, 30cm x 30 cm

Politics of art and the art of politics

Video installation exploring views on the referendum of the kenyan constitution.

curated by Auto Malinda

The quintessence of loneliness

"Ageless" Mixed media on canvas 2010 

"The quintessence of loneliness" Mixed media on canvas 2010

Art and Graft

"Target" Mixed media on canvas 2010

"Cargo" Mixed media on canvas 2010 

(The series explores the effects of corruption on the society).