Rain

Rain has been a continued area of my research, through collecting rain the fleeting experience and distance is collapsed. Rain becomes a measure, a feeling, a locator and material.

3854 Drops of ECA Rain (Rain/place/time)

2024
Watercolor paint with rainwater
Edinburgh College of Art Degree Show 2024

100 x 100 x 4 cm

Rain drop rain gauge

2025
Blown glass and carved Mazerras stone
38 x 38 x 35 cm

I like rain. It’s considered a blessing in Kenya. On weekly phone calls with my parents, we exchange rainfall readings theirs more accurate in milometers through the rain gage in the garden and my response more often than not- it rained a lot.

Rain, Mvua, Regn (collecting)

2025
Blown glass, steel, sandcast plaster
New Contemporaries 2025, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland 80 x 120 x 80 cm

Rain/Place/Time

Rain drop painting's

159.5 mm of Loretto rain,

watercolour and rainwater on watercolour paper,

33 x 45 x 3 cm

A life of rain- 17,682 mm,

watercolour and rainwater on cartridge paper,

150 x 150 x 4 cm

This ongoing series of paintings track a period of time in a specific place. Through collecting rainwater and rainfall data I paint the millimetres of rainfall of a period in a specific place. I do this over residences, tracking my life in rain and also for commissions of others who trust me to paint the rain of their 5 years of marriage or year their child was born.

Rain, Mvua, Regn (making it rain)

2022
Hose, rainwater, pvc pipe, acrylic box, acrylic paint on paper

Edinburgh, Scotland
360 x 186 x 230 cm

I painted in the rain -taping a large sheet of paper on to an exterior wall as the Scottish rain pelted down – probably sideways. As I added paint strokes the rain drops added runs. I see this as a collaborative painting with the rain. I wanted to bring the experience of rain inside. To re-enact the overwhelming nature of painting in the rain. My idea was simple – big tub, pvc pipe with drilled holes, hose pipe and some duct tape. I knew this was somewhat a hazard so emailed my tutor- no reply, emailed head of health and safety- no reply, emailed head of sculpture – no reply. I figured I would be best to create a risk assessment- I emailed this around, again no reply. It came to the morning of the exhibition, and I hadn’t heard any objection or approval. I figured I did all I could and the tutors couldn’t care. I rigged it, I tested it. Opening event the standard warm beer and bad wine. I switch on the tap -it starts raining inside! The echoes of the drops fill the sculpture court. People admire. The head of sculpture and Fine Art storm up to me- ‘you did this? Who gave you permission?’ I say I tried to ask permission and share my risk assessment with them. They see my email on their phones. They demand I switch it off and ask about the physics of the acrylic box – I say my sister, a physicist ran the maths. I proceed to switch it on and off in short intervals while bailing out the water so the tank does not over fill. This was my introduction to senior tutors at ECA, ECA bureaucracy and asking forgiveness over permission. For the next couple months around campus people would know me as the girl who made it rain. This work was my first major step into rain based research which continues to form a major facet of my practice. I hope to recreate this work one day- maybe in a slightly more interesting form. I am really happy I did it and 3 years later it continues to be one of my favourite sculptures.