“On Red Ground’ 1st – 30th October
Roy Pickering is based in the English midlands and has been a frequent visitor to Kenya for over twenty five years. His paintings of his native Nottinghamshire emerge out of a close connection with the landscape and how it has been shaped by human intervention. In 2010 Roy Pickering spent several weeks in Kenya creating this exciting new series of mixed media paintings on aluminium and paper. Using rags and sticks to paint with as well as paint brushes these works also incorporate the red oxide soil of the land being depicted. The layered accumulation of marks simultaneously reveal and conceal in an archaeology of time and place. Often the resulting works capture a sense of moving through the landscape; a succession of passing glimpses and differing viewpoints.
Roy Pickering has exhibited widely, most recently at the ‘Gallery in Cork Street’, London in 2010, and as a contributor to the innovative mixed exhibition ‘Earth Critical’ at Alba la Romaine’ in France earlier this year.
This is his first exhibition in Kenya.
For more information contact : Nairobi National Museum. www.museums.or.ke
Gallery opening times : 8.30am to 5.30pm
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