Geraldine Robarts has spent practically all her life in Africa, and more than half of it in East Africa. So it makes sense for her latest exhibition, opening tomorrow, at Nairobi National Museum to be called African Soul since so much of her own soulful journey around the region is reflected in dozens of dazzlingly bright oil paintings that fill the walls of NNM's Creativity Gallery.
Calling herself a colourist, Geraldine's use of brilliant rainbow hues in virtually all her paintings in this show confirms the obvious. And yet her subject matter ranges from people, places and playful experiments using layers upon layers of oil paints, to birds and butterflies, donkeys and fish, to the basic elements of water and wind, sunlight, moon beams and magical spirits, such as those one will see in a painting like Beyond the Veil.
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