Focus on: Visual Arts ( Painting and Metal Sculpture )
“Beauty from the Coast” By Ms Shama Jaffer Tanzania is rich with artists of all caliber ranging from those tingatinga artists we’re all come acquainted to, to those more mainstream. They all represent a Tanzania from their individual views, backgrounds and beliefs. Dar Life caught up with the newly emerging artist Safina Said Kimbokota who is taking a more active and vocal approach to showing her work.
DL - What inspired you to start painting? Safina: I don’t really know. But, since, I was at a tender age; I have always found myself in it. Maybe, it is inborn. Almost every artist in the world, regardless of the tribe, culture, country, tradition and others we are inspiring one and others, but some really touched me in so many ways is my Professor Elias Jengo.
Name: Safina Kimbokota Profession: Visual Artist Born: 1982
DL - How long have you been an artist? Safina: Almost five years, but I am just counting this as my first year, because I have been to college and University. I have just finished my BA in FPA last year. Then, I thought maybe, this would be the perfect time for me to get involved.
I am a girl from the coast and the only thing that inspires me is the way the woman from the coast dresses. Since completing my Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Dar-essalaam, I have been concentrating on developing a career as both a painter and a Metal Sculptor. My paintings focus on the woman from the Coast, Collage portraying Africa Cultures while my welded steel sculptures focus on delicate organic forms and the intricacy of natural life.
DL - When did you start? Safina : Painting in 2008 and Metal Sculpture in 2010. DL - Wow, seems your work has been extensive. Have you done anything that sticks out? September 2015 I Dar Life I 55