"Compelling power... disturbingly eloquent"

Sandra Gibson, Nerve, 2008

"Large, naturalistic pieces that are full of interesting detail and have a contemporary feel. Kimathi's work is completely accessible..."

Andreah Enisuoh, New Nation, 2004

"Challenging and informing and inspiring… Donkor’s work allies and subverts artistic tradition"

Sara Allen, Untold London, 2007

"Excellent painting about a painful subject... the aethetics of rioting"

Dotun Adebayo, BBC Radio London, 2005

"Engaging oils..."

Hephzibah Anderson, London Evening Standard, 2004

"Bizarre puppet figures... their hands pierced by barbed hooks"

LB, City Limits, 1985

"Stark realism that slides seamlessly between the subliminal and the polemical... 'Under Fire' is exceptional in its sustained eerieness..."

Diriyi Osman, Black Heritage Today, 2005

"Bare urban backgrounds and darkly wry, understated titles"

Kate Smith, Untold London, 2006

"Striking intensity and meaning"

Kubara Zamani, Nubiart - Sound Radio, 2007

"Donkor's images of the British bobby are not what we are used to in America"

Rudolph Lewis, ChickenBones: A Journal, 2006

"Researched to the last minor detail"

Jason Bissessur, Black Britain, 2006

"Moving and enchanting"

Kamali Melbourne, BBC Nottingham, 2005

"'Fall/Uprising', an exhibition marking the twentieth anniversary of the Brixton riots opened last Thursday, and the same afternoon, two Metropolitan Police officers entered the gallery and asked to see 'Helping With Enquiries: 1984'..."

Rebecca Taylor, Time Out London, 2005

"Powerfull painting..."

Lambeth Life, 2004

"A quiet riot, these large-scale oil paintings continue Kimathi’s exploration of the human struggle..."

David G Taylor, Positive Nation.co.uk, 2005

"trauma and human suffering... pay quiet homage"

Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy, ArtsHub, 2005