Artist's Drawing and Inspiration

The Art of Scratchboard

I guess not every child had the opportunity to live in three different African countries by the time they were 14 years old but I was blessed. I was born in Uganda and grew up all over East Africa. My father worked on the railways, building bridges for the push westwards and wherever a bridge needed building, we would be transferred. Consequently I lived not only in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania but I also lived in about 10 different towns or villages and attended all manner

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