Theresa Musoke

Theresa Musoke (born 1945 in Kampala, Uganda) is a Ugandan-Kenyan painter and visual artist most well known for her experimentational and expressive depictions of Kenyan wildlife and women's experiences in African. She is most widely known for her work in painting and printmaking, but also uses batik, barkcloth, acrylic, and dye, among other materials in her works, even venturing to sculpture on occasion. Musoke describes her works as "semi-abstract" and incorporates themes such as her multinational heritage, African identity as a whole, and feminist themes including domestic roles, motherhood and family planning into her pieces. Quotes “It helps, from time to time, to change media because, sometimes, when one is comfortable with one, you can get stuck. But you change, you spread out ideas and are bound to see growth.” In the presence of living things: Theresa Musoke’s story The East African ( May 07, 2025) “My greatest achievement is that I am healthy, I am alive and I am still able to practise my art.” In the presence of living things: Theresa Musoke’s story The East African ( May 07, 2025) “I like doing this, it is occupational therapy for me, and I cannot get tired of waking up every morning and doing it.” In the presence of living things: Theresa Musoke’s story The East African ( May 07, 2025) “The whole thought of painting is a strange one… most people want you to put it down in words, but the truth is if I could tell it, then I wouldn’t paint it. Therefore, to start explaining my paintings becomes ridiculous! It’s about nature and the many parts of it. I normally don’t tell a story as such. It is a very difficult thing to put your feelings into words. In my art I precisely have the joy of doing just a beautiful thing.” Arena for Contemporary African, African-American and Caribbean Art AFRICANAH.org (02/08/2025) To perceive the landscape is, therefore, to carry out an act of remembrance, and remembering is not so much a matter of calling up an internal image, stored in the mind, as of engaging perceptually with an environment that is itself pregnant with the past.” The whole thought of painting is a strange one…,… most people want you to put it down in words, but the truth is if I could tell it, then I wouldn’t paint it. Therefore, to start explaining my paintings becomes ridiculous! It’s about nature and the many parts of it. I normally don’t tell a story as such. It is a very difficult thing to put your feelings into words. In my art, I precisely have the joy of doing just a beautiful thing. External link Category: living people Category: women Category: artists Category: painters Category: women from Uganda