Would That It Were So Simple...

Saying happy belated new year is an understatement! The year is young and already we’re battling a pandemic. One which calls for isolation and quarantine. Luckily most of these isolated days are spent in the studio.
...all that is required of us to keep the virus from spreading is to self isolate and stay away from each other....would that it were so simple.

Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage

And then is heard no more. 

— Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 17-28.

I Will See What I Want To See A Review

https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/magazine/When-drawing-is-just-the-beginning/434746-5358726-ux95h9/index.html

I Will See What I Want To See Exhibition

"I Will See What I Want To See" 

Opens Wednesday 13 Nov, 6 - 8 pm 

The exhibition runs until 7 Dec 2019 

The exhibition looks at drawing as a discipline that presents the widest scope for artistic expression forming the basis for a wide variety of visual making.

Curated by @jonathanfraser

Exhibition And Studio Diary

The work examines the complexities and nuances of our humanity. The constant search for meaning. They explore consciousness and our imagined reality as an estrangement and reinventing of self . 

Studio Diary // Work in Progress

work in progress 

Work on Paper

Mourning A Memory A Review

Life is rarely what it seems, and to enter the current exhibition of paintings by Beatrice Wanjiku is to stand both at the entrance to the womb and on the edge of the grave...... 

In fact, the artist shrugs off the dystopian aspects of her paintings not as dread thoughts in the dead of night but simply as reflections of our times and their complexity. Read more here.. 

https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/magazine/Beatrice-Wanjiku-art-exhibition-Nairobi/434746-4834508-bi91hw/index.html