There's a new gallery in town! "I made the decision to open my gallery to show the works of young Kenyan artists who primarily focus on the Kenyan experience. I’m interested in exhibiting work inspired and influenced by black African culture with a focus on dynamic ideas about art and society." - Nadia Wamunyu on her new gallery.
I send my message at 12.37 P.M. They respond at 3.19 P.M. with these words: "Our answer is yes. Always is a yes. That's our little thing - getting info about creative arts out." Safe to say the conversation went better than I expected it to go!
His journey towards becoming a fine artist and the seasoned creative that he is today didn't quite begin as conventionally as you may think. Lidanjam actually begun expressing himself through music. He tells us that he started scribbling at a very young age, but due to the environment in which he grew up in, his focus shifted to music through which he would paint his world. At this particular time in his life, he used lyrics, words and sound.
But this left a gap in his world; one that he felt needed to be filled because he needed to see a physical manifestation of his world in actual colour.
o inspire, to teach, to motivate, to challenge minds, to invoke thought, to pleasure, to annoy, to irritate, to mesmerize, to cause action, to give life to, to finding love and making love.-this is the essence and soul of my art