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Painting - Katie Simpson ‘Happy after the Rain’ - oil on canvas, framed - 60cm x 60cm 2025

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Happy after the Rain

A rhino’s face emerges with gentle directness, framed by delicate wildflowers, bright red blooms & white lilies rendered with tender botanical detail against soft greens and golds. The painting balances the animal’s ancient, powerful presence with the fragility of the flowers around it, a moment of peace and renewal after rain, suggesting resilience & quiet beauty in the natural world.

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.