Kenya

_{Before even starting school, Elijah and his younger brother Moses used to draw in the sand using their fingers. Elijah spent all his free time at school drawing and would save his pocket money to buy manila paper, colour pencils and when he completed his school, his parents paid for him to trin as a welder at siaya and when he came to Nairobi to find a job, his search for work was fruitless. So he began to concentrate more and moreon his paintings.}

_{He painted at his sister’s kiosk in southlands Nairobi increasingly encouraged by the people who saw and admired his work, and who began to buy hi spaintings and Utamaduni houses. With his small income he thought oil paints and with his new medium, he began painting wildlife more seriously.  One day, he was advised by a visitor to take his work to African Heritage who in turn referred him to Gallery watatu.}

<sub>Ruth Schaffner helped him to work on canvas as well as boards he had used before. His paintings of lion, cheetah, buffalo, elephants, zebras, variety of birds and other wild games are charming portraits each with its own character painted with tiny meticulous brush strokes Elijah endevours to improve with each new painting he completes.

His work can be seen everywhere in the world.

Year                     Title                                                                  Location</sub>

_{1991                Art of cast Africa                                Gallery watatu}

_{1991                Gallery Artist                                     Gallery watatu}

_{1991                custodians view                                 Gallery watatu}

_{1992                December exhibition                          Gallery watatu}

_{1992                United Nations Childrens Fund             New York USA and Switzerland}

_{1993                Tidings Calendar Exhibition                Gallery watatu}

_{1993                Young Art in Kenya                            Gallery watatu}

_{1993                group 94                                          Gallery watatu}

_{1994                The custodian view                            Gallery watatu}

_{1994                Art exhibition                                    Marugame Japan}

_{1995                A group exhibition                             National Museum Kenya}

_{1998                Arts Festival                                      National Museum Kenya}

_{1999                Nairobi Insecurity Goethe Institute    Nairobi}

_{2000                Arts Festival                                      Kenya National Museum}

_{2002                East Africa Wild Life Society                 Safari Park Hotel}

_{2002                A Group exhibition                             Ramoma}                     

_{2003                A Group exhibition                             Italy}

_{2003                Art Group                                          U.K}

_{2003                Art Group                                          International School}

_{2004                Kianga East African Contemporary        London/ England}

                        _Art                                                      

_{2004                KSPCA Art Auction                              British High Commission}

_{2004                Kenya Art Brooklyn                             New York}

_{2004                Art Exhibition Sales Gallery                  New York}

_{2005                Fund Raising Picnic                            Canadian High Commission}

_{2006                Art Festival                                        Kenya National Museum}

InfoSend E-mailJoin Mailinglist