Achieng Oduya (b. 1979)
Rusinga, Afternoon Rain, 2023
Oil on canvas
120 × 160 cm
Estimate KES 750,000–1,100,000
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About the work
Rain moving across the lake towards Rusinga Island in the late afternoon, painted as a grey-green veil drawn down over bands of ochre and slate. Oduya scraped the rain into the wet paint with the edge of a board.
Condition
Excellent.
Provenance
Acquired from the artist by the present owner, 2023.
The artist
Oduya grew up in Kisumu and has painted Lake Victoria for twenty years, almost always from the shore and almost always at the edges of the day. Her paintings reduce the lake to bands of colour, built up in thin layers and scraped back so that earlier light shows through. She works in a converted garage in Lavington and returns to the lake every few months to make small gouache studies.
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