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How trio turned studio into big art movement
From left: A Personal Playlist, Self Obsession and Bruised Ego, oil-on-canvas artworks by Kenyan artist Boniface Maina, displayed at Circle Art Gallery in Nairobi on May 27, 2026.
Three painters, disgruntled by the bureaucratic eccentricities of the traditional art scene, joined brushes together to form a collective pact that would come to be known as Brush Tu, loosely translated “just keep on painting.”
Through Brush Tu, they set out to develop and nurture young artists not only on the craft but in the business of art, ensuring that creativity could also become a sustainable livelihood.
