Uganda painter featured at Art Dubai 2024

Samuel Kakaire’s work is true to the tradition of icon painting in its attention to detail. Kakaire has specialised in tempera, oil and watercolors and can comfortably do both miniature and large-scale mural painting. Though he currently works with oils on canvas, his earlier works were executed in tempera on wood panels. He uses the traditional limited palette of colors based on yellow ochre, red, black, white, and blue. It is a joy to see Ugandan visual arts appreciated at an international scale.

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