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Beatrice Wanjiku, who was awarded the “Most Promising Female Artist" title in Kenya in 2006, has now become an internationally lauded artist.

Her work displays emotional richness and requires full engagement of the viewer's mind and soul.

Beatrice's paintings play with the processes of revealing and concealing. She explores themes of vanity, humanity, memories and transitions, by playing with layering, texture and typography and using key texts lifted from magazines, novels, and newspapers.

The contrast between abstraction, text, montage and layering and the image of the face on several of her paintings is to explore the notion of the self through the perception of the other. The face as the final layer gives something recognizable to the viewer, a point of clear identification rooting the play of words and ideas in the physical human form and our most immediate expression of the self, the face.

Beatrice has participated in various group and solo exhibitions in Kenya and abroad; including in the UK and US. Her work has been acknowledged by various awards and scholarships.


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All artworks of Beatrice Wanjiku
Painting, Untitled, Beatrice Wanjiku

Untitled

Beatrice Wanjiku

Painting - 52.4 x 63 x 1 inch

£9,826

Fine Art Drawings, The strait jacket series I, Beatrice Wanjiku

The strait jacket series I

Beatrice Wanjiku

Fine Art Drawings - 29.5 x 21.7 x 0.1 inch

£2,010

Painting, The sentiment of the flesh II, Beatrice Wanjiku

The sentiment of the flesh II

Beatrice Wanjiku

Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 1 inch

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Who is the artist?

Beatrice Wanjiku, who was awarded the “Most Promising Female Artist" title in Kenya in 2006, has now become an internationally lauded artist.

Her work displays emotional richness and requires full engagement of the viewer's mind and soul.

Beatrice's paintings play with the processes of revealing and concealing. She explores themes of vanity, humanity, memories and transitions, by playing with layering, texture and typography and using key texts lifted from magazines, novels, and newspapers.

The contrast between abstraction, text, montage and layering and the image of the face on several of her paintings is to explore the notion of the self through the perception of the other. The face as the final layer gives something recognizable to the viewer, a point of clear identification rooting the play of words and ideas in the physical human form and our most immediate expression of the self, the face.

Beatrice has participated in various group and solo exhibitions in Kenya and abroad; including in the UK and US. Her work has been acknowledged by various awards and scholarships.

What is Beatrice Wanjiku’s artistic movement?

The artistic movements of the artists are: Somber Abstract Painters

When was Beatrice Wanjiku born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1978