Njogu Touray is a well known Gambian artist who was born in 1960 and began his early artistic career by tinkering with art using different natural media found in his environment such as beach sand and cowry shells. Njogu creates his own rich vibrant colours using natural resins and pigments extracted from various indigenous tree bark and plants which he uses on his paintings. This obsession with natural materials started in his childhood and is indicative of his environmental concerns about local detrimental damage including the felling of trees.