Patrick Mumba’s body of paintings engages with the impermanence of life and the time in between various forms of beginnings and endings. He relates ambiguity and processes of aging to the aesthetic process of moving from representational art to semi-abstract art, and to complete abstraction when the object or material reaches an unrecognizable stage. ‘‘If all life comes to an inevitable end as a result of time, then it is the job of the artist to capture the moment arrest and immortalize that life.’’

Patrick Mumba is a Senior lecturer and Head of the School of Education at Evelyn Hone College. He completed his Art Teacher’s Diploma in 1985 at Evelyn Hone College. In 1994, he graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art, University of London in the United Kingdom with an Honors degree in Fine Art.

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