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UNITED NATIONS STAMP
KENYA
Richard Kimanthi
Living Single 1999
oil on canvas 120 x 80 cm

Richard Kimanthi was born in 1971, attended the Creative Art Centre, Nairobi, in the mid-1990s, and works at the Kuona Trust Art Studio. He comments: ‘The painting is about life in my country and the fate of most women. It is about women living single with their families as a result of divorce or freedom. When I am sick I paint, and then I feel okay. It was important to enter the competition to help myself convey my ideas through my vision, because shouting about them was not enough’. This image has been chosen by the United Nations to be reproduced on a special commemorative postage stamp to mark the new millennium.