Category Archives: Flora of Zimbabwe

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

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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Earth Ball, Moon Ball; Depending on your Point Of View

Earth Ball, Moon Ball; Dyed Fabric or Clouds; Print Cloth or Landscape; Depending on your Point Of View…. After the incredible Earth workshop last year with Ann Gollifer at Wits Museum, my mind is even more tuned to the circular, … Continue reading

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The Last Resort Reinvented; A repurposed Art Space and Dialogues on Humanity in Zimbabwe…..

Many years ago, Drifters Lodge near Mutare was built by Lyn and Ros Rogers. Nestled between four small green-clad mountains, it catered to drifters and backpackers, art and bridge clubs, friends, itinerants and more… Challenges and tragedies, triumphs and disasters, … Continue reading

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Roses for Remembrance; Love and Loss….

Roses for Remembrance; Love and Loss….Nature’s Palette from our artists’ brushes and palette knives… Surrounded as I am by African wilderness, gardening with and painting indigenous African plants in the majority of my working days, and as much as I … Continue reading

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Palm Passion; Art, Nature and Poetry

My latest painting is inspired by the indigenous, hardy Phoenix reclinata palms, (false date palms), that grow in abundance naturally in Zimbabwe, found framing the sky along the great Zambezi, Limpopo and Save Rivers and smaller riverways and springs. Cultivated … Continue reading

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Dancing skirts and cellphones; beads and hut paintings

my art beading works and inspirations… Hundreds of years of trade by Indian and Arab dhow, up and down the east coast of Africa and generally across the Indian ocean, are reflected in the love of glass seed beads, traded … Continue reading

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

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

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

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

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