" ANGURUOK "
Guy Combes

35 Signed & Numbered Limited Edition Canvas
23" x 35"
$595

 

“This painting is dedicated to my father, Simon Combes (1940-2004). For the last years
of his life, he was Project Director for Rhino Rescue Trust, a charity set up to reintroduce
black rhino to Lake Nakuru National Park in Kenya and to protect them with a high security
fence. Simon went to his grave unexpectedly, but with the knowledge that this project in
which he had enormous pride was a tremendous success. 

“For years now, I have wanted to paint a black rhino in a setting in which I am most
accustomed to seeing them. A charging rhino with lots of dust is a great subject for
a dramatic painting, but there is something about this that implies a response to
the threat. These great creatures are being culled to extinction at an alarming rate,
so I wanted to portray the rhino in this beautiful grove of acacia abyssinica that I
grew up thinking of as sacred, sublime and safe." 

Angurouk (a more phonetic spelling of the Kalenjin “Ankurwaak”) means
“The trees that grow in the sacred altar.” 

Guy Combes - Anguruok - Rhino

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