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Curtain falls on career of disabled artist

Curtain falls on career of disabled artist
Mary Wanja paints using a brush held in her mouth at her home in Nyeri’s Kimathi estate last year. The painter, who was disabled, died on Sunday. [Photo: Job Weru/Standard]

“I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.” ? American painter and teacher Robert Henri.

 A disabled artist from Nyeri happened upon the art scene and blossomed.

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