ABOUT

Everything that I am

Evans Mbugua is a visual artist whose work reflects a life lived across cultures. Born in Nairobi, Kenya, and based in France since 1999, he builds a vibrant visual language shaped by personal memory, cultural hybridity, and human connection.

His paintings combine colorful, hand-designed patterns created from pictograms gathered over years of travel and observation with portraits of family and friends in moments of joy, play, and everyday intimacy. As Mbugua says, “everything that I am comes from what I’ve smelled, tasted, heard or seen, what I’ve read, where I’ve been, who I’ve met.”

Through this interplay of form, rhythm, and experience, his work becomes a celebration of presence. It affirms people, places, and the quiet complexity of belonging in a constantly evolving world.

From one point to another.