KENYA

Field notes from a journey across Kenya: climbing through the changing landscapes of Mount Kenya, meeting artists and growers in Nairobi, and travelling south to the plains beneath Kilimanjaro.

Photographs of the places, people and encounters that shaped the paintings and film made along the way.

01 — MOUNT KENYA

Chogoria → Point Lenana → Sirimon

Climbing from the forests above Chogoria into Mount Kenya’s high alpine landscape, painting along the trail through giant groundsels, volcanic valleys and cloud. We reached Point Lenana at 4,985 metres as first light moved across the mountain.

02 — NAIROBI

People · Art · Land

Back in Nairobi, time spent with growers and artists shifted the journey from landscape towards people — conversations around land, memory, identity and the ways a place can be carried through both cultivation and art.

 03 — AMBOSELI

Plains · Wildlife · Kilimanjaro

South to Amboseli, where Kilimanjaro appeared and disappeared beyond the plains. Days spent painting and filming among elephants, dust and changing light brought the journey back to the relationship between people, wildlife and the land they share.