Kenworthy is fascinated by the way both people and creatures survive in the world's great wilderness. Hence his enduring love of Africa. Here amongst the vast, remote horizons of the continent, he continues to find his subjects. He works from extensive sketchbooks. In 1974 the BBC's cameras followed him on safari and filmed him in the studio and foundry for an hour long documentary entitled "Kenworthy's Kenya".
  
     
  His African safaris over a forty year period have been punctuated by travels in Asia. In 1977 he watched Afghan horsemen play the savage game of Buzkashi on the Steppes of the Hindu Kush. This led to the first of his three New York exhibitions: "Horsemen of the Hindu Kush" 1979, followed by the "People of the Desert" 1985 and "Survival in the Serengeti" 1991 in an Upper East Side gallery.    
     
 

His last major exhibition “Rhythms of Life” was in October 2002 in New York at the Gerald Peters Gallery. The subjects ranged from Asia, Afghanistan and Nepal, to East Africa and Egypt from the desert to savannah.

In 2007 LionTree Publications produced a book on the Sculpture and Works on Paper of Jonathan Kenworthy. The book was launched at the Portland Gallery in London in November 2007 together with an exhibition of sculpture and drawings spanning a forty year period. A copy of the book can be obtained through this website - see Contact page.

In February 2008 the book was launched in New York at the Gerald Peters Gallery together with an exhibition of bronzes and drawings. A percentage of the sale proceeds of the book was donated to AMREF.

Three sculptures are to be included an Axel Vervoordt exhibition entitled Academia at the Chapelle de l’Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, 14 Rue Bonaparte.
September 10th - November 23rd, 2008.