Well, it must be allowed to enjoy good press when one gets it, no?
So I am happy to tell that in their newest special travel edition on Africa, the well established Norwegian magazine “Reiselyst” found space for a six page article about my Drawing safaris…
The head title, for those of you who do not read Norwegian, says “Hunting with a pencil”. How fitting! The image above shows me with the journalist Toril Moland who together with the editor Ronny Frimann came and spent some days in the Mara on a Drawing Safari with me a few months ago taking a cultural break after climbing Kilimanjaro...
It was an interesting visit, and a new experience for Torill who had never really drawn before even though she is a very creative person covering many fields!
After some initial fumblings due to lack of experience she quickly grasped the concept and after a few suggestions got her drawing going really well! 
Obviously going on a safari is also about enjoying the animals, the landscape, the food, the people, culture… And I was pleased to find they did take it all in full.
I like doing these safaris. And I think Saruni Camp is doing really well looking after everyone accordintto specific likings regardless of where they come from or what their preferances are.
From an artistic point of view it took me a few years to get really started painting again as well as I wanted, and it took a lot of – real! - “beating around the bush” – to get it. Which perhaps is why I have a LOT of patience – as well as a genuine- interest in what can make people tick away creating happily from exactly where they are.
The main key, to mine, as well as my students, blissful and creative mode, is to relax into the genuine gentle beingness of the bush. And oh how the animals around is assisting us in our efforts! And if it seems to difficult to get a hold onto how to get a painting by a giraffe done, well, the tree is not going to walk away anywhere soon, is it…
All in all we had a joyful time together, and we were all happy they came.
The Drawing Safaris is all about to be out there, to observe, to watch, to try and try and try again… and to be happy with the day when at the end of it we go back to camp and the fire and the good meals doing smalltalks with the drink of your choice in your hand… and then, next morning, when you open your sketchbook perhaps with a slight anitcipation to be dissapointed at what you did the day before because you think you are so dumb at it, instead you are delighted and happy and suprised and impressed with yourself! … and so you set out again refreshed, knowing that you have done something useful and worthwhile already and bent on doing even better this day…
Thank you also to Sigurd and Kari of “Safari Opplevelsesreiser” for creating Torilds and Ronnys itinerary! If you should ever want to travel for a safari from Scandinavia you can rest assured to be in the the best of hands should you book with them;)
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Hmmm… well as I am on it… there was also a nice article in a newly started Kenyan magazine called “Focus on Getaways” kidogo time ago which I post as below… A sister magazine to a very popular real-estate magazine as well as hosting links for expats they have been doing really well: thank you, Michelle, for giving me and us such a good press throught your fascination with the concept! When up and into it: Go check the magazine when you can! Available all over Nairobi and through subscription;)
Ok. Starting on the front page…
On the first edition! And on front page! Very honored. Then, as I got the magazine and opened it to read…
Iwas humbeld and felt again very honored to be mentioned in the editors letter…
Stevie Mann took the beautiful photos from the camp. A fantastic man and a true artist.
Meeting the local people, eating and drinking well is a part of the “hum” of a safari regardless if you shoot with camera or try to graps it with pen and pencil!
…and least but not last it is good to know where you are… to which Michelle worked on making clear. Easy to find the way to your home away from home with this!
Then there was a nice feature article about me in Sandefjords blad in relation to my summer exhibition..
Kudos to you all! And thank you for the support!
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