Category Archives: african trees

Art Student Assignment; Apt Art Questions; Rivers Beads and Baobabs; All Things Connected!

Posted on July 27, 2023 by wineandwilddogs

My colour choice in both paintings is reflective of the bright and often pink-tinged skies in our Zimbabwean landscape- and apart from this being an exquisite sunrise/sunset landscape colour, it is a creative and vibrant colour to express movement and emotion Continue reading →

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Floral Art takes to the air; Burnt Offerings, Re-Invention, Taking Flight….

Posted on July 6, 2023 by wineandwilddogs

Neels Scott floral installation at Pikicha Gallery, Emagumeni, 2023 Our group exhibition at Pikicha Gallery in Harare, titled “Burnt Offerings, Re-Invention, Taking Flight”, inspired top Zimbabwean floral designer Neels Scott to create an installation, a magnificent piece of floral art, … Continue reading →

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Salt and Hot Springs: Culture and Snail Shells

Posted on July 6, 2023 by wineandwilddogs

fascinated always by giant african snail shells, storytelling and snail shell stories…. Continue reading →

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Lin Barrie Art; Miniature Portraits; Flights of Fancy

Posted on June 21, 2023 by wineandwilddogs

flight of fancy, taking flight…. Continue reading →

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Art Interview Lin Barrie; art, landscape, environment and the natural world

Posted on June 7, 2023 by wineandwilddogs

My art interview with Farai of StoryUntold in Zimbabwe youtu.be/WwwHVQcx-GQ #allthingsconnected Lin Barrie, Kelli Barker and Clive Stockil with “Winged Things’, mixed media on canvas, at the ‘Burnt Offerings, Re-Invention, Taking Flight” exhibition.Pikicha Gallery 2023

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Magical Madikwe meets my Wild Dog Art

Posted on January 18, 2023 by wineandwilddogs

The superb Madikwe Hills Private Game Lodge in South Africa is home to a diverse flora and fauna, including fascinating African wild dogs, and home to some of my wild dog art… This large oil painting of mine is a … Continue reading →

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Purple Passion; A Tiny Life

Posted on July 24, 2022 by wineandwilddogs

Cycles of Life and Death- two sides of the same coin My painting, a dead wasp amidst the joyous yellows and purples of fallen jacaranda flowers, reflects the wonder I feel on observing nature and the world around me – … Continue reading →

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Baobab Christmas Tree; Rainy Season in the Lowveld

Posted on December 15, 2021 by wineandwilddogs

Our wire sculpture Christmas tree is a baobab Every year we take it down off out mantelpiece where it lives with my wild dog sculpture and the grandchildren decorate it with homegrown ornaments and out in the veld bloom these … Continue reading →

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I bless the rains down in Africa; Baobabs, Beauty and Baubles in Zimbabwe; 

Posted on November 16, 2021 by wineandwilddogs

Travellers and residents of Africa, we are all familiar with the iconic ‘upside down tree”, the iconic baobab of Africa which stands much of the year bare and sculptural against the clear winter sky in Zimbabwe. Its branches twist and … Continue reading →

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Gallery Delta, Art for Arts Sake….

Posted on July 20, 2021 by wineandwilddogs

An impressive and evocative art video from a few years back, by Nigel Hulett of Granadilla Films…memories and inspirations. youtube.com/watch “Gallery Delta, Art for Arts Sake…. “ ..listen to music from such as Hope Masike on Mbira, watch art memories … Continue reading →

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