Girl Effect commissioned me to illustrate the ‘Hey Springster’ June and September editorial calendars. Each image corresponds to an article addressing concerns of teenage girls from all over the world!
Hey Springster is a mobile site for and by teen girls from all over the world! Linked is their Kenya satellite site but you can find your own country's on heyspringster.com. Please share the zine with a girl you love!
This was a fun project for a Brooklyn based sustainable fashion company, Fauborg. The illustration is the first of my more minimal, line based series on sisterhood called 'Dada.' Sister in Swahili.
I love totes, mostly because they look great and are reusable. It's so fun to wear my own creation and feel good because it's better for the environment!
You can get yours here! 10% of the proceeds will go toward supporting handwork and women artisans in Africa.
Photos: By Priscilla Debar, for Fauborg
Boost Mobile celebrated Black History month in February 2018 by commissioning myself and a few other artists to create a finished work and video showing the creative process behind it. We were each to pick a hero of black history so I chose Eartha Kitt.
This was my first experience creating video! I am looking forward to more.
To launch its new app, AirBnb chose 12 artists from all over the world to represent their home cities and Nairobi is one of them! I am so happy to share my home and show it off this way. You can still see the 12 posters on your AirBnb app.
A client will be using a version of this portrait for a line of bags. I'm quite excited to see the final product!
One new letter everyday from a Kenyan to their younger self on the creative and thoughtful "Hadithi - Letters to Self." These are some of the pieces I created for a category and some letters on the site.
Monmon is a series based on memories from my childhood. Find the full story behind each one on my instagram page!
This was a fun collaboration with fashion PR maven, Diana Opoti, for the 100 days of African fashion series to introduce a younger audience to African fashion.
My first art challenge in 2015 was to produce a diverse body of work for ten weeks based on my personal sense memory. It is my way of contributing to the spectrum that is modern Kenyan art. The story behind each piece is on my instagram page.
