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This is a fully inclusive 10 day safari for 6 -10 pax with private charters. Itinerary as follows: 1 night in Nairobi, 4 nights Laragai House, Borana Conservancy, 5 nights Manda Bay with Kenyan artist Frances Simpson.
LARAGAI HOUSE AND MANDA BAY pose as a stunning locations for this once special edition Safari into Kenya with renowned artist and teacher Frances Simpson, who will accompany you on your creative journey, encouraging you to draw and paint and to vividly enhance your appreciation of the natural world by keeping a Safari Journal. Previous artistic experience is not necessary. Enjoy the company of others whilst experiencing the world from a different perspective. Game drives and walks and time to relax and reflect will be punctuated with art lessons in different locations so as to see as much as possible. There will be plenty of time for you to relax, enjoy the wildlife, landscape, and the culture. Non-painting partners are equally welcome, and have been known to suddenly develop hidden artistic talent! “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” -Pablo Picasso. The SCC team will assist in planning your trip with any added accommodation and ground handling if needed. We expect this trip to sell out very quickly so do not delay in booking your place. The closing date to sign up is the 31st August 2022 and is limited to 12 people.
Laragai House is a 8 bedroom home situated on the northern boundary of Borana Conservancy, a premier wildlife destination, in Northern Laikipia. The house is built using local stone and thatching and styled on a English country house and has themes stunning views of Mt. Kenya to the south and the vast northern mountains of the north. The Accommodation is luxurious, with enormous fireplaces and deep comfortable sofas, fine dining and luxurious linens. The house includes a swimming pool, game viewing vehicles, mountain bikes, a tennis court, games room and gym. This stunning location is perfect for painting, bird watching, game viewing and relaxing.
Manda Bay, a boutique lodge on the northwest tip of Manda Island, in Lamu, Kenya. A small lodge with only 16 beachfront rooms, it combines the ultimate bush and beach experience. Whilst miles of soft sand and coconut palms surround the lodge itself, the bush behind the lodge is dry scrub land scattered with Baobabs, Acacia Tortilis and Tamarind, with a resident herd of Buffalo, and resident wildlife. The main lodge is open and spread out to allow for privacy and the accommodation is simplistic, and comfortable and built in the traditional way for the region; constructed with local materials with palm thatch roofs and woven matting floors. The lodge includes a swimming pool, activities room, bar and outside dining.
LARAGAI HOUSE AND MANDA BAY pose as a stunning locations for this once special edition Safari into Kenya with renowned artist and teacher Frances Simpson, who will accompany you on your creative journey, encouraging you to draw and paint and to vividly enhance your appreciation of the natural world by keeping a Safari Journal. Previous artistic experience is not necessary. Enjoy the company of others whilst experiencing the world from a different perspective. Game drives and walks and time to relax and reflect will be punctuated with art lessons in different locations so as to see as much as possible. There will be plenty of time for you to relax, enjoy the wildlife, landscape, and the culture. Non-painting partners are equally welcome, and have been known to suddenly develop hidden artistic talent! “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” -Pablo Picasso. The SCC team will assist in planning your trip with any added accommodation and ground handling if needed. We expect this trip to sell out very quickly so do not delay in booking your place. The closing date to sign up is the 31st July 2022 and is limited to 12 people.
Frances works in Mixed Media, Watercolour and Acrylics from her studio in Naivasha, Kenya. A Kenyan born Artist, Frances has had many solo shows in Nairobi and the UK and her paintings are in many private collections worldwide. She uses natural material such as sand, charcoal, dust, elephant dung and earth colours of Africa with the bright oranges, reds and magentas of tribal fabrics in her paintings on canvas and paper. Painting on location in the Kenyan bush, and inspiring other artists to use the natural earth materials and colours in their real life experiences on Safari are her passion: “through sketching and painting and quiet observation you see the wild animals of Africa more clearly and enter into their magical world, and this process is life-changing.” Keeping sketchbooks to distil memories of African journeys are a speciality of Frances’s work, and she has had many happy experiences holding Workshops to encourage many students to do the same, at any level of artistic experience.
You will fly by private air charter to Borana Conservancy and be met by your guide and enjoy a game drive back to the lodge. You will enjoy a delicious lunch by the pool and settle into your surroundings. Take an evening game drive out onto the plains with Frances who will point out various details to look for – training your eye to capture the moment! Return to the lodge for a hot shower and an evening by the fire. Your stay at Laragai will focus on observing African Wildlife up close in its totally natural environment. Frances will show you how to capture form and movement with charcoal and graphite, and to experiment with the rich earth colours of the African bush.
During the next 3 days, you will have the opportunity to go out on an early morning game drive and then return after breakfast for a 2 hour session in the open studio, where oneto-one tuition as well as exercises will allow you to develop your personal style using graphite, watercolour and mixed media techniques. Enjoy an optional painting session in the afternoon before heading out for thrilling Game drive in the evening. Whether you choose to concentrate on wild animals, a landscape or exotic plants from the garden, Frances will be there to help you with understanding form and color to enrich your artistic techniques so you have some wonderful memories to go home with.
After breakfast, we fly on private charter to Manda Bay for a two-hour flight, and land on the lodge’s private airstrip. Settle into your lodgings and have the afternoon to walk, swim and get yourself set up in the upstairs studio.
There will be 2 hour sessions both after breakfast out amongst the palms, and after lunch in the open studio, for lessons on how to use the brilliant ocean and coral reef colors, natural texture and other different methods to enhance your artwork. The rest of the time you have plenty of time to paddle board down the mangrove creeks, swim, walk and enjoy relaxing in a swing bed, go for a drive and visit the baobabs, Manda ruins and visit the buffaloes.
We will do a full morning walk around fascinating and historical Lamu Old Town with a guide and then head up to Shela to do some sketching and enjoy lunch in a beachside restaurant.
A relaxing and creative morning to complete some of your Safari Journal sketches and perhaps a visit onto the beach to do a plein air painting of the magnificent Manda Bay seascape.
Head back to Nairobi mid – morning and met by the SCC vehicles who will then transfer you to your hotel or airport for your onward destination.
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