Painter with a passion for attractive African women

Mary Ogembo is a specialist in painting African women in all shapes and sizes, the one caveat being they must be beautiful. She decided to focus on women a few months after graduating from the Creative Arts Centre (CAC) in the early 1990s.

Graduating in the same class with some of Kenya’s best known contemporary artists such as Michael Soi, Maggie Otieno, Jimnah Kimani, Justus Kyalo and Michael Wafula among others, Mary concedes it was something of a “golden age” at CAC, one of the few art institutes in Kenya training young fine artists.