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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.

Posted on December 25, 2025 by wineandwilddogs

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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Take Note! Look! Cheuka Harare Art Fair (CHAF) 2025

Posted on October 8, 2025 by wineandwilddogs

Cheuka is a Shona word that refers to the observation or noticing of both tangible and intangible things that surround us. Look; the act of noticing, noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; Cheuka Harare Art … Continue reading →

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

Posted on July 31, 2025 by wineandwilddogs

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

Posted on February 19, 2025 by wineandwilddogs

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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Of the Earth, Of Fire; Sketching a Giant African Land Snail Shell

Posted on November 14, 2024 by wineandwilddogs

Fascinated by #snailshells – I use black and ochre earth pigment … Laying the earth pigments on my sketch paper … #Fibonaccispirals coils and very satisfying lines.. #lifepatterns that I sketch with earth and ink, using a palm leaf pen… … Continue reading →

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

Posted on November 9, 2024 by wineandwilddogs

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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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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Roses for Remembrance; Love and Loss….

Posted on July 6, 2024 by wineandwilddogs

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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Before the Investec Art Fair; exploring galleries…

Posted on February 15, 2024 by wineandwilddogs

Cape Town Conference Centre -focus on Investec art fair and so much more to add to the bigger picture, the culture of Africa… Off the plane from Harare and to the waterfront to browse the crowds.. too much for me … 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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