When art pays the bills

By HAPPY NGUGI

Passing through a winding, narrow wooden staircase at the Lonrho House along Standard Street in Nairobi, I am led to a glossy, wooden mezzanine floor, brightly lit by wide windows that keep out noise from the streets below. Wooden sculptures and wall paintings of all sizes usher one inside to more paintings stacked against each other on the floor, walls and metal rungs.