Personalized Gifts: Custom Nameplates and Signs

Last year I made a custom name plate as a baby shower gift for my darling nephew Zakayo. The name design fits in with his animal nursery decor theme.  These custom name plates make the perfect personalized baby shower gift, wedding gift or housewarming gift. I also make metal signs which can be used for office decor. If you would like to order custom name plaques and door signs please send an email to minjete@gmail.com. 

Animal Name Plate (Zakayo) by Injete

Personalized Baby Shower Gift

 Door Sign Nameplate (Zakayo) by Injete

Name Art Décor

Animal Name Plaque (Zakayo) by Injete

Animal Nursery Home Decor

Office Decor: Door Signs and Wall Plaques

Office decor and art can be used to both motivate employees and create beautiful working spaces. You can get creative with your office door signs and wall signs. Instead of the typical boring door plaques you can order custom door signs with creative wording and in your company colors. The door signs are available as handmade metal signs or aluminum metal prints. To order handmade metal art signs please send an email to minjete@gmail.com. My door signs will also soon be available as metal prints which you can buy online from my Pixels.com and Zazzle.com stores.

Boardroom Door Sign

Office Signs by Injete

Think Tank Wall Plaque, Office Decor

Metal Art Signs by Injete

Ladies Toilet Sign, Red Heels Shoe Painting

Restroom Signs by Injete

Gents Toilet Sign, Red Shoe Painting

Restroom Signs by Injete

Ninjas at Work Wall Sign, Office Decor

Metal Art Signs by Injete

Meeting Room Sign

Office Signs by Injete

Gents Toilet Sign, Black Shoe Painting

Restroom Signs by Injete

Ladies Toilet Sign, Black Heels Shoe Painting

Restroom Signs by Injete

 

Personalized Art Gifts: The Statesman

Last year we got invited to the 70th birthday party of a family friend. I usually have a hard time picking birthday gifts for men especially the type of man who has everything so I took the easy way out and asked his daughter what we should get for her dad's gift. Turns out he loves both art and books, so she suggested we buy him one of the two. I decided to make him a personalized gift of a metal painting with his initials, birth year and nickname included in the art piece. He likes to wear hats and is a retired politician so I decided to incorporate these elements too. The metal art piece includes some Kiswahili phrases, "Ligi Kuu" meaning the Major League is inscribed on one of the stools and hats. Kaa Ngumu his nickname which means "stay firm" or "stand your ground" is also inscribed in one of the stools. Kaa also means "sit" in Kiswahili. Finally I also inscribed "Elders Council," on one of the stools. I used stools versus chairs in the painting since they are a symbol of leadership in some African cultures. If you are interested in buying artwork please send an email to minjete@gmail.com.

 Metal Wall Art by Injete Chesoni

The Statesman, Council of Elders (Detail)

African Art Painting by Injete Chesoni

The Statesman, Council of Elders (Detail)

African Artwork by Injete Chesoni 

The Statesman, Council of Elders

 Metal Wall Art Painting by Injete Chesoni

The Statesman, Council of Elders (Detail)

Art for Sale: African Art Inspirational Paintings of Women

This year I decided to return to actively painting and blogging about my art work. While going through my existing art pieces I came across a few I had not posted on this blog. Some are from a collection of art pieces I did as a commission for the Young Women's Leadership Institute (YWLI Kenya) and others were inspired by that commission. If you are interested in buying any of these paintings please send an email inquiry to minjete@gmail.com.

The idea behind the YWLI art collection was inspiring young women to take flight and reach for greater heights, as well as celebrating sisterhood. My favorite piece from the collection is the "Basket of Butterflies."

Basket of Butterflies by Injete Chesoni

African Art, Abstract Metal Wall Art

Sisterhood Celebration, African Dancers by Injete Chesoni

African Art, Metal Paintings of Women

 Basket of Hope by Injete Chesoni

Black Art, African Paintings of Women

Posing: Metal Wall Art Nude Painting by Injete

Acrylic Paint on Metal (22 by 25.5 inches, Framed with Mat)

Art for Sale: $500 (Free Shipping)

Artist Appreciation Month: My Metal Art Inspiration

I first heard about Artist Appreciation Month this year from fellow artist Patience Brewster whose whimsical Christmas Ornaments I love. As part of Artist Appreciation Month activities I was asked to write about artists who inspire me. I have chosen to write about the artist who inspired me to start making metal art. 

It was Christmas over ten years ago and my sister Atsango and I were shopping for Christmas gifts. She, been a lover of art, and I been a recent returnee to Kenya we decided to go by the art gallery at the Kenya National Museum. There I saw the most stunning piece of metal art (see a photograph of it below), I felt an immediate connection to it and so did Atsango. Since I was a broke college student at the time she ended up buying the art piece for herself and one other piece by the same artist for my brother and his wife. 

African Metal Art purchased Kenya National Museum, Artist Unknown 

Unfortunately, since the artwork was not signed, I am yet to learn the name of the talented artist who created this piece, but I remain forever grateful to him/her for re-awakening my creative spirit. Should anyone know the name of this artist please get in touch with me. 

On that day over ten years ago I decided I had to learn this wonderful metal art form. Soon after as I was walking in one of the malls, I checked the notice board and saw a tiny advert for classes in hand embossed metal art. I took down the art teacher’s phone number and called her shortly thereafter. Her name was Taruna and she taught me the ancient Indian art form of embossing aluminum metal. From then on I developed my own style based loosely on the Indian art form. To this day I work primarily with metal.