African artist Wycliff Chagwi comes from the nation of Kenya and is a character immersed in apparent talent. A solemn man, he is a self taught artist who gets his suggestions for subjects from photographs and life that he sees in his nation of Kenya on a day to day basis. He paints mainly rural kids that he sees in the villages of Kenya.
I got to know Chagwi when I was collecting paintings in Kenya. We spent some great time with each other and he even agreed to do a video interview with me, whereupon I received the beneath info and quotes for this post.
Chagwi loves his nation and is extremely loyal to it, expressing this loyalty and love via the subjects of his original African paintings. Love any Kenyan, he has powerful command of the Kiswahili language, but struggles with the secondary language of English.
Chagwi says that his function as an artist, which began as a teenager, has created from becoming a struggling painter in the late 1990's to now where he considers it a "lifetime job." He says that in Kenya, citizens of the nation "do not love arts." A challenge he and all artists face is that "the cost of the art supplies are as well higher" therefore diluting some of the possible talent artists can express by getting the correct supplies. Chagwi keeps at his artwork simply because he believes in his art and is 1 of the couple of artists in Kenya who has sufficient clients so that he can make a living out of painting. He is not intending to quit. He encourages other African artists to too continue so that they will 1 day be a achievement.
Wycliffe Chagwi is one particular of my favorites amongst African artists due to the solemn and dynamic character behind his artistry. The high quality of his African paintings and the subjects in their stance that he paints are really outstanding and enjoyable.
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Edwin "Omosh" Omondi is a Kenyan, lives there, and functions as Accurate African Art.com's on website Project Manager.
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