An African Sketchbook - Drawings & Watercolours of Kenya by Ray Nestor

Nestor, R.1988. An African Sketchbook - Drawings & Watercolours of Kenya by Ray Nestor with extracts from his memoirs. 1st Edition. Fountain Press. Tolworth. 111 pp. 29 cm x 21.5 cm. Hardcover with DW in very good+ condition. No names or inscriptions.

Ray Nestor travelled to Kenya to work as a surveyor two years before the First World War began. He returned to Kenya after enlisting and being seriously injured in the first Battle of the Somme. Ray Nestor became a farmer, his first love however was sketching and painting the people and the landscape of Kenya. He also executed many fine portrait drawings of his friends including Berkeley Cole and Denys Finch-Hatton whose lfe and love for Karen Blixen inspired the film Out of Africa. The iilustrations are complemented by Nestor's memoirs which give a fascinating insight into life in colonial East Africa.