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Kivuthi Mbuno
Living in the remote north of Machakos District, Mbuno's pictures have evolved free of all outside influence. He has developed his own language of imagery to create a hermetic symbol which is readable to insiders alone. Mbuno's beautiful, mysterious paintings have earned him East Africa's only place in the New York Museum of America Art's "Africa Explores" collection, touring widely in the United States and Europe. In 1996, he was among Kenyan artists who participated in "DAKART" Biennalle in Kivuthi Mbuno
Senegal.

Mbuno's fascinating examination of his culture and the environment in which his tribe the Akamba live, takes place in an abstracted perspective utilising the aesthetic base employed by Akamba wood carvers. Each tree, beast, bird or demon is executed in an elegant yet austere manner. They are metaphors and caricatures of form, reflections of physical as well as spiritual characteristics.