Author: Lotus Menezes

Lotus Menezes is an artist, online painting instructor, and avid traveler from Tanzana, currently living in Mississauga, Canada. When she’s not painting or teaching courses, Lotus can be found spending time with her family or sketching like a madwoman and blogging about it.

Rediscovering Picasso

Until now, I never quite ‘got’ Picasso. I thought he was a an egotistical person that became famous for reason only known to himself. I heard about him in school, in Kenya, everyone does around the world. I could pin point his work in a psychiatric text as if I wanted to, but his work never really appealed to me. I never really wanted to acquire his work or paint like him. I still don’t. But I now have a new sense of appreciation for his work and life as an artist.

By the Stroke of a Brush

A solo exhibition on August 5th, 2011 at the Makutano Art Gallery in Dar es Salaam, featuring a collection of various works by Lotus Menezes. The artwork varies in subject from seascapes to figures to objects and fruits, which shows Lotus’ diversity as well as her years of progress and evolution…