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This painting holds a rhino in quiet intensity, its massive head rendered with anatomical precision - suspended within warm, dissolving washes of rust, gold, and rose. Delicate burnt grasses emerge from the colour field like traces of a vanishing landscape, while a small bird circles above. Simpson captures the animal’s particular presence, its weight, its eye, even as the world around it becomes swirling and uncertain, painted in colours that feel almost elegiac.
Katie Simpson is a Kenyan painter whose work is an act of witness to the animals, landscapes, and fragile ecologies that shaped her from childhood. Combining ancient techniques with contemporary paint effects, she gives pigments freedom to roam the canvas,  capturing wildlife in fleeting, abstracted moments that feel both luminous and urgent. Trained at Charles H. Cecil Studios in Florence and created in her Nanyuki studio, her work is driven by a deep belief in the fragility of the natural world  and the power of colour to bear witness to it.
