Conservation Art

Four Primary Schools, Ngabolo, Kimanjo,  Musul and Naiperere, plus Kimanjo Secondary School, have all enjoyed a two week art and conservation programme. Visiting artist Mathew Owino from Lily Pond Arts Centre, Nanyuki and volunteer Joy have excelled in helping the pupils produce some  excellent pieces of art work using paint, pastels, crayons, natural materials  and recycled multimedia materials.

  Solomon , Paul and Kingori have been responsible for the conservation input. They have tied each school’s theme into the most pertinent issues for them: following their trip to the river  Kimanjo Primary school produced lovely work on water wildlife and birds; Ngabolo, who still face nightly incursions by marauding elephants, despite the fence , have focused on elephants, Musul focused on the natural world around them using flowers and stones and Kimanjo Secondary who are spearheading the clean-up campaign in Kimanjo have begun some interesting  installation art using recycled materials. Naiperere showed real seriousness in producing work on conserving culture with complex stories depicted pictorially.

At the end of the term we will come together to share what we have learnt about conservation this term and show our finished results

We have had numerous wonderful volunteers in schools over the years, but special thank you this month must go to Joy who has shown such commitment , independence,  energy and  sense of humour, as well as wonderful artistic talent, in what has been a challenging task.... and STILL first out of bed every morning!!

Later this term we will take another art team to Raap and Parkuruk schools.