 On the first link. I told you we had a guest in studio single you can mom be able and you've been you've been following us closely Umona poor style my honey. Yep, and you know, I don't even know how to introduce her like she does so many things She she volunteers a lot. She does a lot of volunteer work. She is a creative She's a paintbrush artist. She's I don't know. She's so many things But I'm gonna let her introduce herself to miss many times. I'm touching knife. What's up? Hi feeling Um, so my name is Nithi. Yeah, I'm an artist for this moment. I don't know what start with but I'm an artist artist I also In from Monday to Friday, I'm on mark. I'm a marketer. I grew up 25 And I'm on five from five to ten or five to eleven. I'm an artist and I also as she said I love volunteering much And yeah, that's basically for today. That's good. Just for today. That's it. That kind of it for this show for now So, um, mostly we're here not as a marketer. I just here as an artist So that's gonna do for ours. You did this whatever is on my face. She did that You know and last year at heavy and the best of what she came through for people and she did a lot of makeup for all the guys Are there what that was amazing? So I would like to know how you got into that because I used to we had we had Um, what is it called? Um a YouTube channel together? All of a sudden she's now this big time of paint artists. I don't know how that happened So tell us about that. Okay, so As Philly mentioned so how I met Philly it was through that YouTube channel, but then I just came out as an artist Like I think two years ago 20 20 20 20 18 years 2018 after school Then there's this break of what exactly is going on between school machine getting work between getting relevant in this street So I said it going back to my skill. That's it. I used to paint from high school Even when I met Philly nice to paint but didn't just talk about it Oh, like I used to hide my work Finally, I'll say coming out like an artist. Oh, yeah, I'm bringing all my stuff So it's been on for I think two years now. Yeah, two years is the second year Yeah, then by the time we did have in the base last year I'd actually did a few gigs of face painting on Those that never be carnival and then you also had the mental health for last year Yes a series of events before and that was one of the ones that almost closed my year. Oh, right Yeah, that was a end of last year and then 20 20 Today you are supposed to have an event like don't give us the details But how do you get such an event because um, you're supposed to hang out with that to do Chicky Chicky Kruga, right and those are like People some people can't even meet so how do you get such gigs? Do they contact you? Are you like selling your work to them? Do you DM them? How does that work? Yeah, so I bought cheekies event. I don't talk about it much because I'm not there right now And also because I don't think you really have the rest Yeah Get it know these people in different spaces. I met Lillian. I think 2017 or 18 not sure so Lillian is the manager for cheeky Then so whenever they have events she calls me. It's like more of knowing people you give I know how networking works Today I come through for instant come through for me. I have a gig I call you through for your skills You're coming for skills and when you go there you meet other people who want you for another gig They want you for another thing just like one thing opens everything else, right? But it gets up on the hdm people when you really want something up to go for it You know sometimes you DM them and ask them if they'd want to they look at your portfolio You get a couple of no, and maybe one drop of yes that one yes That one is they loot all the nose then is all the nose and then it kind of just makes sense It just picks its own way slowly because I just not like face art because I sort of abstract art that's for houses or causes that's for Thematic artworks. I think Like two or three months ago. It was something called artists against hunger It was by Sophie some other artists, and they were trying we're trying to raise money to support children's home You know how covid has been for people Especially children's home who they survive on charity. Yeah, so having that social income really gone down so artists came together to Sell their artworks and a percentage goes to the children's home. Oh, nice. So cool by the way Super super cool, and we have some of your work. I think on Instagram So we went to have a look at that as you tell us about it. So what inspired that? What is that all about that piece? If you see this series, there's this year. I call Nietzsche and new a series They are like a six-part. I like sit on screen. Oh my god It's a whole niche and new a series is like my other than afro come the jelly have this hand That was the time for black lives matter and that emoji Okay So I had this six series six pieces maybe because it goes on screen right now I might probably talk about it So if you look at it, you can see they come if you look at the whole series you understand They how they come come through but this one I think the light because like how much the light is on the outside But then it comes back To the inside so the whole story behind is how much you can stay yourself closed-minded But then because there's a revolution all thing going around just can't avoid it you find yourself Thank you into the whole revolution. So it's just about this one's just about like stick for stick to your guns You know what you believe in it doesn't have to make sense right now It makes sense to many people it it shines a lot the dark areas as well Don't and then we have another piece right there. What is that all about the one? Man on Instagram just a random That's very nice pictures. We're just so one. We had a very nice color chat nothing much about it All right, let's have the next one up so that you can tell us more about how it works Yeah All right, so let's do this. Um We're just coming back in a few she's gonna be telling us more about the pieces she had But I feel like we've been talking for a minute. Nisi is still gonna be here We're gonna go straight to DJ Hugh's girls Hey All right, thank you so much for seeing me as you're watching rock to what live right here on a white if I food TV the Hashtag is that rock to what to pay for my name is feeling I feel in tune across all socials What is it right here goes by the name Hugh's girls and of course we have a guest in studio We're talking to her honey miss missy amala now. We're talking about some of your pieces some of your walk You have right here. Just telling us about that so How do you even get inspired like I don't know different pieces Like the last photo before you this photo looks nothing like the other one So how do you even get inspired like you're like, I like this photo. Maybe I should paint this So how do how do you do that? It's a good question. Yeah. Yeah, so most of them come from personal experiences a whole Johnny when I feel like most of my paintings comes from emotional point of view like what am I feeling right now? And that's how I put it on paint on paint. That's why if you see that previous series the one that had a kichana I'm it's a whole journey of like Coming together with that movement. I think everything fit in at the right time and sometimes it's up of like Natural like when you go out you see nice pictures I also like taking photos of random things and also good photography like people take good photos Just like I appreciate this person's art or like good music videos You see like we did that feel like someone really took some time to create like the whole setting the styling is all on point They've come so inspirational to like creating your next piece of art. Oh, nice Now we can have the next picture at this one right here. Tell what is happening here? What's going on? It seems It is one candy. It's a little thing. It looks like this round candy. Hey. Yeah, it's your Halloween candy everyone So yeah, this one um, this is this was from there. You see that thing that's put under the cake I don't know what it's called when you take it The one that you get the bottom. Yeah, the cake sits on. Yes. Yeah, we did this is called like it's like some Drip art so just trying to put things together see just create a cute thing to stick on my wall Oh, it was from a birthday cake, so that's remember something I was giving myself a gift Nice Let's have the next piece and have a look at that one. I don't know if you have the Can't wait to be surprised on what comes up next Yes Yes, I don't know What's going on? Again, you still see the whole thing here. Oh, yeah Are they tall? Yes, then black legs matter string it down with the pair or like a guitar string to the pair Mm-hmm, and you can see the feminine bit of it as well. Yeah, so it's a whole combination of different things together to still Actively black lives matter and the role of feminine feminine people in this space and shouting it out Okay, and pairs of sweets. Hey, I'm telling you like creative. It's just like so deep like Oh, I know what this one means they have to explain it to you Is that a gas mask or what's happening? Tell us about that. Yes same one same from the series. You still see that China yeah, this is like China and this time the little pieces are magazine pieces and About this is most about being informed before you start before you start being a Nazi for example Yeah, take some time to read and You see here the tech part of it so last year I think 2018 did a TEDx talk and our visual or someone looked like this So this time I was thinking about you want to do another TEDx talk it was all in our mind then I was like that visual is so pretty but the same was doing this China series and The whole story about this basically noted comes about ideas that matter. Yeah, talk about things that matter So before you start becoming the face of feminism the face of Children's rights be informed so that's because you're an activist you have a voice Yeah, it's like your research. Yes. All right. Cool. Let's have the next piece up Those are three pieces I think What's happening, I'm so excited you guys like the first time I'm seeing these things again Sorry, this big one. Yeah, so this one was for an exhibition called Covid yeah, so it's like telling the stories of Covid if this one's still up for sale, by the way So there's a face of a woman. We should have had a clear picture of it You can check my pages. I'll upload a clear picture of it Then I'll just read back and see what's about so if you look at this face half of it is happy Half of it is sad. Can you see it? Yeah, sure. So at this time, it was enough time to get used to wearing masks, for example Yeah, and she's not wearing her mask properly. She's not wearing her mask Why because she needs to have the mask on so guys are having their masks on but they're still not putting it the right way Yeah, part of it I have to put it on to protect my family part of it really first of all it beats the whole point of makeup I can't put this good lipstick and hide it in a mask, but it's okay Then the second part of it is just how much like you still have to put even however However, hurting it is or how it is to breathe it in those things you need to put it for your fun food that you care about in Everyone so the beauty of still having your mask on yeah, but put it on correctly the mask is down so you can show the emotion Oh, you can check my pages. I think I have a clear picture of it there Or I can redo our post specifically for this. All right, and I'll maybe you can just do the two of them And then you move on to the next one. Yeah, yeah, maybe that one. It's just a cute thing for a house Like the color combination inspiration behind there's nothing deep about it Do you have like a lot of exhibitions or how do you get to sell your art? It's a very good question Yeah, so as I say initially my networking is what brings me more of this most of these things together Yeah, so there are different communities of artists some are signed up to studios some are independent where I fall Is very independent first of course of my level of commitment So how I do is I get in touch with people in those Exhibition spaces I pitch sometimes they say yes sometimes they don't and sometimes you see call for Exhibitions you submit a piece of work might say yes It's just more trial and error But then also referrals will work very very well because someone buys from you today The next time send someone to come to you right or like specific commissioned works that are barely posted Yeah, no, I think this is gonna be the last one. We're gonna be talking about for today Oh, maybe yeah, no until us about this Yeah, we see the blue waves of the the fire and the Soft-sport white meat now. This was still most of these pieces actually if you check my work I came back to my art space over this from much when COVID started because I was literally stuck in being with myself I couldn't like run away from Solitude so being alone. Yeah. Yeah, yes So this one is over the beauty of it and the war parts of it coming all together creating that soft spot for someone to just sit Don't introspect by themselves. Cool. And then we have this is the second last one. We have the last piece this one and Police brutality Kenya that I'm doing killing people Oh, oh, what's her name? Baby, I seen oh That's the one in my diary. Yeah, it was the time that the summer It wasn't necessary that that was a necessary Then we say justice we are shielded defender, but no one's ever gonna use that to take care of Kenyans, you know So why are we going against all this? So the silver lining is our phones? That's all we had that time It made some sense even if we didn't mean like you're not fighting a tree, but at least we have that Online. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I like that. All right So as we wind up, I want to know like if anyone wants to purchase any of your pieces How do they go about it and how much what's the highest amount you've ever tried and what's the least amount? For the sake of my manager. Yeah, I don't quote prices. Yeah, but we always talk So what you can do just reach out to me. Which one is my camera this one? Yeah, reach out to me on Instagram nissy underscore Mala or write me an email or nissy at amalats.org Just write to me and you'll have a conversation. Oh, cool. So I think um, I Maybe oh when I'm going to social media, but you haven't actually told them your socials. So where do they find you? Yes, of course Instagram mostly Twitter and Instagram and Twitter Facebook you can try but but I'm not really By all is checking once in a while. So Instagram and of Instagram each day. They're all nissy underscore Mala. Yeah, all right That's amazing. So last remarks. Do you have anything you want to say any special shout out? Maybe inspiration to people who want to be artists like you as well first of all Stick to the journey whatever it is sticks your vision get to know where exactly where exactly doing what you're doing keep on doing it and then If you feel like you have that small bit of thing in you that you feel is a talent or something can change someone's life acts on it There's never the right time to do something and it's all a journey. Okay. Yes, and shout out to who of course my partner Betty Wanja of Naxi glass. This is hard piece. Please make this nice. She does very nice jewelry She always makes me look cute and gives me opportunities. I really appreciate you for coming through all the time Awesome. Nissy amala on Instagram and to that guys. Make sure you do follow her We're still here. They sure you still on we have a kevin toys coming up next But rocktorch. If I fall is where you find us on Facebook as white if I fall so he does up Let us know where you're watching us from and you're gonna be signing some love your way I'm on James. You make one. I see you. All right. Now it's time for