Category Archives: flowers

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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Sweet Embrace and True Joy; Flowers Celebrating My Child..

There are so many moods to a painting – and a floral painting is somehow always celebratory, light out of darkness, embracing hope and life; environment and nature… “Iceberg Roses, Sweet Embrace” is an impressionist painting I created with simple … 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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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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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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Lin Barrie Art; Miniature Portraits; Flights of Fancy

flight of fancy, taking flight…. Continue reading

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Purple Passion; A Tiny Life

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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Bright Skies and Waterlilies; New Year, New Hope….

Bright Skies and Waterlilies…. Wonderful soaking rains in Harare have filled our dams at Borrowdale Brooke Estate and rejuvenated our gardens. A New Year and New Hope.  Bright skies behind palms start our day as we walk … And the … Continue reading

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Baobab Christmas Tree; Rainy Season in the Lowveld

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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