Opens Saturday 31 January 2026
Geoff Weedon
When the Snow Melts on Kilimanjaro and the Limpopo Runs Dry
When the Snow Melts on Kilimanjaro and the Limpopo Runs Dry
Rise Above It I - White Crested Turaco, 2025 - Oil on Canvas - 60 x 60 cm - Kshs 140 000
GEOFF WEEDON - ARTIST’S STATEMENT
I am and always have been a figurative artist, but in an age when most people carry a pin sharp camera on their phones, it is not enough just to picture what you see. Rather, I observe nature and re-imagine it.
For me, a painting begins with an idea. A point I wish to make perhaps, or a narrative I want to communicate.
But always the image is paramount. It must seize your attention, tease your imagination and draw you in. And the simpler the image is, the stronger its effect.
I work solely with oil paints and begin each work with a rough charcoal sketch moving figures this way and that, seeing how limbs articulate , how the stretched skin of a cheetah reveals the taught muscles beneath. I then layer tone and colour applied with brushes, rags and fingers. I pour on glazes and splatter paint, no strict methodology, no rules until the image slowly reveals itself.
It is alway a process of discovery.
I am by nature a colourist and celebrate the resonant richness of oil paint, using colour to enhance mood, accent drama or simply produce the visceral pleasure oil painting delivers.
I hope in this show I have done justice to the terrible predicament that confronts both man and wildlife in Africa. And I hope I have shown the extraordinary beauty of the creatures who are powerless to avert this disaster.
These paintings should be seen as a vision of hope and survival.
Geoff Weedon - England - 2026
I am and always have been a figurative artist, but in an age when most people carry a pin sharp camera on their phones, it is not enough just to picture what you see. Rather, I observe nature and re-imagine it.
For me, a painting begins with an idea. A point I wish to make perhaps, or a narrative I want to communicate.
But always the image is paramount. It must seize your attention, tease your imagination and draw you in. And the simpler the image is, the stronger its effect.
I work solely with oil paints and begin each work with a rough charcoal sketch moving figures this way and that, seeing how limbs articulate , how the stretched skin of a cheetah reveals the taught muscles beneath. I then layer tone and colour applied with brushes, rags and fingers. I pour on glazes and splatter paint, no strict methodology, no rules until the image slowly reveals itself.
It is alway a process of discovery.
I am by nature a colourist and celebrate the resonant richness of oil paint, using colour to enhance mood, accent drama or simply produce the visceral pleasure oil painting delivers.
I hope in this show I have done justice to the terrible predicament that confronts both man and wildlife in Africa. And I hope I have shown the extraordinary beauty of the creatures who are powerless to avert this disaster.
These paintings should be seen as a vision of hope and survival.
Geoff Weedon - England - 2026
When the Limpopo Runs Dry, 2025 - Oil on Canvas - 120 x 150 cm - Kshs 450 000
Rise above it II - African Great Flamingo, 2025 - Oil on Canvas - 54 x 84 cm - Kshs 210 000
Water, Water Everywhere, 2025 - Oil on Canvas - 100 x 150 cm - Kshs 450 000
Run, 2025 - Oil on Canvas - 150 x 162 cm - Kshs 600 000
Rage, 2025 - Oil on Canvas - 120 x 120 cm - Kshs 400 000
When the Snow Melts on Kilimanjaro, 2025 - Oil on Canvas - 120 x 150 cm - Kshs 450 000
And then it Rained, 2025 - Oil on Canvas - 100 x 150 cm - Kshs 450 000
Nowhere to Run, 2025 - Oil on Canvas - 120 x 120 cm - Kshs 380 000