Coming Up At Le Rustique

Kenya Sun 02-09-2007

Coming Up At Le Rustique
By a Correspondent

Kivuthi Mbuno was born in 1947 in Makueni district where he still lives. Before becoming an artist, Kivuthi sold charcoal, soap and later became a tour guide in East Africa. It is while in these employments that Kivuthi started drawing as a hobby during his free time until he met Peter Beard, the famous American artist then based in Nairobi.

Interested in his original depiction of landscapes, Beard supported him and encouraged him to take a more serious attention to art and drawing. In 1986, Gallery Watatu and Ruth Schaffner started to display his work in the gallery and it is through them that Kivuthi’s works reached the international audience.

With time, he became one of the several Kenyan artists of international reputation.His works have found collectors all over the world and a place in most of the permanent collection of Museum showing African Modern Art.

His works have been widely publicised in America, Europe, Asia and also in African countries. His paintings represent a world as yet untouched by modern life where animals and people live in a harmonious existence. With time, Kivuthi has more and more painted tales on environmental and social stances where humans and animals are depicted grotesque figures of our world.

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