Tom Mboya Fine Artist Portfolio

Tom Mboya -- Fine Art

Artist Profile

I am a self-taught visual artist. I discovered my art talent at the age of nine when i did alot of mud moulding with my younger brothers and friends. I subsequently started sketching on the ground by use of sticks and eventually on a paper and a pencil.

I started taking art seriuosly when i won a second class prize on an inter- schools drawing competetions nation-wide, then organized by a Bata shoe company.

Although hotelier by proffession , i have constantly been an active player in the art scene and becouse of passion in art, in sept. 2008 , i resigned from my employment and went into painting fulltime at the Godown Art Centre in kenya where i currently have a art studio. I have sold my paintings to the UK, America and Africa. I use acrylics, oil and water paints.

Exhibitions

1994: Young artist group shaw at the gallery watatu, Kenya

2010: Mixed media group exhibition at the Talisman Restaurant Kenya.

2010: Manjano group provincial art exhibition at godown art centre, kenya, courtesy of the ministry of culture, Kenya.

2010: Art show and sale at the international school of kenya organized by Friends of The Arts FOTA.

2010: Little and Large art sale at the Ramoma Museum Kenya

2010: National art exhibition organized by the the Ministry of culture at the Godown art centre, Kenya