Richard Kimathi Outdoor Activities Exhibition

One Off is pleased to present

Richard Kimathi
Outdoor Activities

Exhibition opens Saturday 29 October 2022
noon to 4pm

Exhibition Run:
Saturday 29 October through 20 November 2022

Gallery open:
Tuesday through Saturday, from 9am - 5.30pm
Sunday, from noon - 5:30pm

'Ebb and Flow', Peterson Kamwathi Exhibition Invitation

Preview of Works

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Friends of Richard Kimathi all agree that he has a ‘wicked’ sense of humour. Anyone writing a text on the subject of his art would eventually but inevitably agree. He cannot be explained through the pedantic and frequently pompous labelling of the contemperorary art world, the texts of which are so inextricably bound-in to the prevailing understanding of the complex story of Western Art.

He may well be chuckling at the seminal oxymoron inherent in that project: how do you write a text for something that cannot be expressed in words? And that would be entirely appropriate, for that enigma is his project. It is not inadvertant. His work provides no gummy patches on which to stick a label. He has stripped them all away. His solvent is efficacious. And now, the keyboard of our labelling machine is a circular blank disc with no clue as to which letter is where and only the possibility of a random string of letters and punctuation marks as output.

No wonder he’s chuckling; not arrogantly, nor vengefully, nor meanly in any way: that is not within his nature, only to disallow us the certainty of our prejudice and to challenge us to see what is commonly obvious: that despite our cultural differences, our traditional preferences; our favoured references; we humanity are, at source, the same: we are in essence emotional creatures driven by feelings, and those feelings are universally felt - though variously expressed. Through his own compassion and empathy for people, he is vibrantly alert to those feelings.

But here is his genious: with so little he is able to express the most complex and profound of human emotion right there on that canvas in front of our eyes. But we’re not seeing; we’re too busy thinking about how to look. You don’t look at a Richard Kimathi, you feel it. And to experience his profundity we need simply to have confidence in the universality of our emotion.

Switch off and trust in the basest of all our intincts; let him move you: you will be rewarded.

Richard Kimathi – Hibiscus and Other Species III, 2022 – Mixed media on fabric – 53h x 43w cm - Kshs 90,000

Richard Kimathi – Beautiful Spots V, 2022 – Mixed media on fabric – 43h x 55w cm - Kshs 90,000

Richard Kimathi – Beautiful Spots IV, 2022 – Mixed media on fabric – 33h x 25w cm - Kshs 60,000

Richard Kimathi – Beautiful Spots I, 2022 – Mixed media on fabric – 27h x 21w cm - Kshs 60,000

Richard Kimathi – Beautiful Spots III, 2022 – Mixed media on fabric – 34h x 29.5w cm - Kshs 60,000

Richard Kimathi – Beautiful Spots II, 2022 – Mixed media on fabric – 26h x 21w cm - Kshs 60,000

Richard Kimathi – Beautiful Spots I, 2022 – Mixed media on fabric – 40h x 90w cm - Kshs 90,000

Richard Kimathi – Butterfly Above, 2022 – Mixed media on fabric – 41h x 58w cm - Kshs 90,000

Richard Kimathi – Dragonfly Above, 2022 – Mixed media on fabric – 50h x 63w cm - Kshs 150,000

Richard Kimathi – The Swing, 2022 – Mixed media on fabric – 56.5h x 61w cm - Kshs 1500,000

Richard Kimathi – Yellow Flower, 2022 – Mixed media on fabric – 56h x 60w cm - Kshs 150,000

Richard Kimathi – The Blue Flower, 2022 – Mixed media on fabric – 56h x 60w cm - Kshs 150,000

Richard Kimathi – Blue Dress, 2022 – Mixed media on fabric – 55.5h x 60w cm - Kshs 150,000

Richard Kimathi – Picking Yellow, 2022 – Mixed media on fabric – 51h x 65w cm - Kshs 150,000

Richard Kimathi – Butterfly & Zebra, 2022 – Mixed media on fabric – 49h x 66w cm - Kshs 150,000

Richard Kimathi – Falling Leaves I, 2022 – Mixed media on fabric – 115h x 94w cm - Kshs 250,000

Richard Kimathi – Falling Leaves II, 2022 – Mixed media on fabric – 113h x 94w cm - Kshs 250,000

Richard Kimathi – Falling Leaves III, 2022 – Mixed media on fabric – 115h x 93w cm - Kshs 250,000

Richard Kimathi – Falling Leaves IV, 2022 – Mixed media on fabric – 116h x 94w cm - Kshs 250,000

Richard Kimathi – Red Flower, 2022 – Mixed media on fabric – 48.5h x 32w cm - Kshs 90,000

Richard Kimathi – The Bells, 2022 – Mixed media on fabric – 34h x 28.5w cm - Kshs 60,000

Richard Kimathi – Small Butterfly, 2022 – Mixed media on fabric – 33h x 29w cm - Kshs 60,000

Richard Kimathi – Living in Harmony, 2022 – Mixed media on fabric – 35h x 75.5w cm - Kshs 90,000

More on Richard Kimathi

Exhibition openings are usually on the last Saturday of every month, excluding December. The gallery remains open on Sundays allowing anyone who missed the opening to catch the exhibition the next day. Do join our mailing list so we can send you an invitation.