by Kelvin | Sep 28, 2026 | Art Gallery Tanzania
A guest told me a few months back that she'd bought paintings on three separate safaris and had never once watched someone actually paint one. By the end of an afternoon in our Painting Workshop, paint under her fingernails, she said it changed how she looked at...
by Kelvin | Sep 26, 2026 | trip-to-tanzania
Ask most travellers to picture African art workshops and they'll imagine watching someone else work, a carver in the corner, a painter at an easel, admired from a polite distance. At Safariland near Karatu, the workshops are built the other way round: you're the one...
by Kelvin | Sep 22, 2026 | trip-to-tanzania
Not everything sold as African handmade crafts along a tourist route is actually made by hand, or made locally at all. A fair amount of what fills souvenir shelves near safari parks is imported and stamped with a "local" label because that's what sells. Telling the...
by Kelvin | Sep 19, 2026 | trip-to-tanzania
I've lost count of how many times I've watched someone stop dead in front of a canvas at African Galleria, lean in, and ask the same question. Who painted this? The crafts get the same reaction. Someone picks up a carved bowl, turns it over, feels the weight of it,...
by Kelvin | Sep 17, 2026 | trip-to-tanzania
Buy African paintings from the wrong stop on a safari route and you'll come home with something mass-produced, painted from a template rather than an idea, and priced as if it were original. Buy from the right one and you leave with a piece that actually has a story...
