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Road trips filled with ART, flowers, family, friends, farming and even more art; travelling Chilo, Chimanimani, Chitungwiza and so many places in-between, as we reminisce on the last six months of 2025.

As a family we have a lot of ups and downs in the last part of 2025, as have all families, but in this blog I dwell on the positives – looking forward always!!! Our family plot (Kaya Nyala) at … Continue reading

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Budula Dance Festival 2025; Dancing with Community at Boli-Muhlanguleni….

Building Sustainable Connections, Budula being an active, well used pathway. The Budula Festival 2025 is spearheaded by the Mahlanga Trust, focusing on Dance. A budula is an active pathway, a corridor, and so is an apt title, considering the transboundary collaborations … Continue reading

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Dancing with Elephants; Culture and Community, Elephants and Dance inspire my art practice….

Tsonga/Xangana (Changana) Culture; Dance, Mucino. The Xangana/Tsonga people of the south-eastern lowveld of Zimbabwe, and into adjoining South Africa and Mozambique, are the proud owners of strong social traditions, and a unique and vibrant culture. The Budula Festival 2025, will … Continue reading

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The Power of Printmaking; Art and Children at the National Gallery

At the Zimbabwe National Gallery in November I arrive in harare and head to deliver chosen paintings from myself and Kelli Barker for the miniatures exhibition due to open early 2025.. under the sea… a sneak taste from Kelli Barker… … Continue reading

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Esther Mahlangu: hit painting, hip painting or hut painting!?

At Investec, my first up close view of an Esther Mahlangu artwork was a fiberglass pot painted in her studio, albeit signed by her. Used to the wonderful hand-built heavy clay pots of Gwayi and the finer earth- fired pots … Continue reading

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Freedom – gallery delta

Freedom – gallery delta — Read on gallerydelta.com/exhibition/freedom/

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Gallery Delta, Art for Arts Sake….

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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Endangered Landscapes – Earthscapes, Skyscapes; Wildscapes, Mindscapes…

Endangered Landscapes – Earthscapes, Skyscapes; Wildscapes, Mindscapes… As an artist and conservationist, living in Zimbabwe, Africa, but having traveled much of the world, my passion is looking at details of the landscape around me, trees; flowers; weather patterns; wildlife; domestic … Continue reading

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Magical Mukuvisi; Moon and Nightjars

Magical Mukuvisi ….. A memory from my childhood….by Lin Barrie I am the child that wakes scared in the night, seeing a robber’s shadow always in the same position, his hooked nose defined by the handle of my half open … Continue reading

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The Christmas Tree; thinking of you all, dear family and Friends

This is truly Baobab heaven, the lowveld of Zimbabwe…. Now, at the beginning of the rainy season, multitudes of creamy white baobab flowers hang: white, frilly and pendulous from bulbous green leafed stems, Like so many slightly frumpy aged ballerinas, … Continue reading

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