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Onesmus Okamar
Born in 1994 in Western Kenya, Busia County, Okamar Onesmus is a self-taught artist who started painting in his early years. However, Onesmus Okamar started his artistic practice in 2007 by following the work of his uncle Peter Elungat, and also reading the exhibition reviews in news papers and art books. His favourite art book is Art Across Time, where he discovered some of his heroes like Gustav Klimt, Leonardo Davinci, Pablo Picasso, Michelangelo among others.
Balancing between school work and artistic practice, Onesmus Okamar began doing art as a career in 2012. In 2013 he met with Maina Boniface an artist who mentored him alongside his early mentor, Peter Elungat.
In his paintings the main subject he puts emphasis on is LOVE, which he believes is the only solution to everything affecting people negatively in communities. In every painting he sends a message of love, peace, unity,purpose, hope, focus, harmony,determination, mutuality, cohesion among others.
He has made an impression in the international arena, where his works were exhibited in Saatchi gallery – London 2014 October and Washington DC 2014 November organised by the Mask Prize.
His works have been vast collected both locally and internationally