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Hubert Senga Portrait

Hubert is the founder of Generation Aid in kakuma Refugee camp and Co- founder of the Kakuma Art Project alongside Artist Tara Dominick. This portrai representing Hubert as an advocate for Refugees is painter by portrait artis Alastair Barford.

Alastair studied Fine art at University College Falmouth. Since graduating in 2011 he has received several awards and Bursaries for his work including, The Wilhelmina Barnes Graham Travel to Italy Bursary, The Midas award and the Richard Ford Award. In 2012 he received funding from the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship trust to study portrait drawing and painting In Florence, Italy at the renowned atelier of artist Charles H Cecil. In 2013 he received the Leverhulme study abroad studentship enabling him to extend his studies for a further two years.

Alastair has been involved in the project since March 2025. He has painted and drawn 6 of our Refugee artists living in Kakuma. He was part of The Power of One exhibition at The Vanner Gallery, Salisbury in September 2025. He has also developed Drawn Together a powerful workshop between students from St Marys in Calne and students from schools in Kakuma camp in which students wrote a letted and drew each others’s portraits.

https://www.alastairbarford.co.uk/