An African Sketchbook - Drawings and Watercolours of Kenya - Ray Nestor
An African Sketchbook - Drawings and Watercolours of Kenya - Ray Nestor
Hardcover, ISBN 0863431852
Publisher: Fountain Press-, 1988
Condition: Very Good+. This book is in an excellent condition. The DJ has only some very slight signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains perfect. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.
Drawings and watercolours of Kenya with extracts from this fine artist's memoirs.
"...brings together a selection of superb drawings from his sketchbooks, plus many of his evocative watercolours. The illustrations are complemented by Ray Nestors memoirs which give a fascinating insight into life in colonial East Africa." - from the dust cover.
Ray Nestor, worked in all mediums, for many years depicting scenes from his beloved Kenya, and then in the latter part of his life, having left Africa and retired to Sussex, images from English life.
-Ray Nestor was born in 1888 in India. His first arrival in East Africa was in 1912, but the First World War followed shortly after and he fought in France where he was severely wounded. On returning to Africa he resumed work as a government surveyor until he and his wife Dorothy decided to farm in Kenya. They settled in the beautiful Nandi Hills in western Kenya. Here Nestor prolifically drew and painted the African scenery, wildlife and people. Many of his works were of the local Nandi tribes people whom he depicted with the greatest sensitivity both in detailed painting and pen and ink, and also filling his sketchbooks with beautiful drawings.
Nestor was also an accomplished landscape and wild animal artist, usually in watercolour, and also a portrait artist, carrying out a number of portrait commissions for prominent members of the famed Muthaiga Club in Kenya (subject of the film ‘White Mischief’). In 1988 when Nestor was 100 years old, The Fountain Press published a book of his work and memoirs – ‘An African Sketchbook’ with an introduction by Elspeth Huxley.
