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ABOUT US
FOUNDED IN 2019 BY ESENYA MATHEWS.
GROWN INTO A SMALL TEAM.
HANDCRAFTED.
ORIGINAL ARTWORK.
CAST IN PURE 940 & 925 STERILING SILVER.
"Growing up around art and metalwork, along with living on the border of Nairobi National Park, inspired the idea for me to start a silver jewellery company inspired by wildlife (my childhood was spent on the edge of the National Game Park, where lions, leopards and buffalos would sneak onto our garden at night!)
My Dad is an artist, specialising in bronze wildlife sculptures. He founded Matbronze, which has a beautiful art gallery, workshop and restaurant in Kenya. The workshop is where his team casts, grinds, chases and polishes bronze sculptures, and Safaria Silver is like a mini-Matbronze - we both use lost-wax casting, we both have workshops, we both carve and mold our own original pieces - Safaria is just all on a much littler scale!
Like my father, after finishing a carving in wax I then cast these designs into pure 925 Sterling Silver or 940 Argentium sterling silver (a silver that is purer, brighter and stronger than traditional 925 sterling silver).
Safaria has now grown into a busy little team, and we now supply some of Kenya's top-end Safari lodges. I absolutely love designing jewellery, and I hope you follow our journey as we continue to learn and grow, improve and evolve!
- Love Esenya"
(founder & artist of Safaria)
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