Category Archives: baobabs

Forever Young, Always Present; the Eternal Embrace of the Chilojo Cliffs and Gonarezhou…

Posted on August 4, 2025 by wineandwilddogs

Friday 25th July, the beginning of Kelli’s birthday weekend at Kaya Nyala, and we set off on a full day Chilojo Cliffs expedition. Celebrating birthdays and also celebrating lost loved ones.. beginnings and endings…. cycles and circles of life… Driving … Continue reading →

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Of Art and Emigrants, of Creativity and Immigrants; Zimbabwe to the World, at home, and in the Diaspora…

Posted on January 3, 2025 by wineandwilddogs

Of Art – writing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, film, photography, theatre and music; Of Emigrants and Immigrants…Zimbabwe to the World, at home, and in the Diaspora.. #allthingsconnected is my mantra … it’s the tail end of 2024 and the beginnings … Continue reading →

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Dancing with my Shadow; An Elephant in the Room and the Budula Festival…

Posted on October 11, 2024 by wineandwilddogs

When I am not at my Harare art studio, I live with my partner Clive Stockil, in the south East of Zimbabwe at Mahenye Village, adjacent to Gonarezhou National Park, (near Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge and Jamanda Community Wilderness Area) … Continue reading →

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Red Earth, Red Wine; Pangolin Protection…

Posted on July 14, 2024 by wineandwilddogs

My passion for Art, Community and Conservation, my long and happy association with Tusk Trust and Painted Wolf Wines, has borne the fruit of many fundraising events, and this is the latest… Together with many other artists, I have contributed … Continue reading →

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What Inspires an Artwork? I Muse as I Embrace Equity….

Posted on August 21, 2023 by wineandwilddogs

What is best for meaningful art creation? What comes first, the theme, the idea, an art commission…. or the actual act of merely putting charcoal to paper or brush to canvas, and creating as you go….? Continue reading →

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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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Ground Hornbills take flight and Inspire my art….

Posted on January 19, 2023 by wineandwilddogs

I have always loved sketching and watching our Southern Ground hornbills in the Save Valley Conservancy and Gonarezhou National Park, and my head is even more full of Ground hornbills these last few weeks! I have been bumping into flights … Continue reading →

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