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

Posted on July 6, 2023 by wineandwilddogs

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 →

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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Snare Wire and Snail Shells; Conservation and Culture meets Art….

Posted on June 14, 2023 by wineandwilddogs

“Burnt Offerings; Re-Invention; Taking Flight.” Lin Barrie Johnson Zuze Kelli Barker Our art exhibition opened very well supported and is on view at Pikicha Gallery every weekday till the end of July- then will be ongoing on line. A powerful art … Continue reading →

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Around the Campfire; Giant Snails,Tradition, Fire and Totems…

Posted on May 28, 2023 by wineandwilddogs

Around the Campfire: Of Giant Snails and Tradition; Fire and Totems… We sit around our newly lit campfire on the banks of the great Save River, mostly sand at this time of year, but still flowing through a few deep … Continue reading →

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Endangered Landscapes – Earthscapes, Skyscapes; Wildscapes, Mindscapes…

Posted on January 29, 2021 by wineandwilddogs

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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Painting and Sketching in my Garden of Eden; But Winter is Coming…….

Posted on September 8, 2019 by wineandwilddogs

As an artist and as a naturalist, skulls skins and bones have always fascinated me. I love drawing the shapes of found natural objects and perhaps this harks back to the fact that I loved Biology as a scholar. The … Continue reading →

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Skulls and Flowers; Life and Death in the Garden of Eden

Posted on April 28, 2019 by wineandwilddogs

Skulls have always fascinated me, and bones; we start dying from the minute we are created, a natural process not to be feared but embraced, truly the stuff of LIFE…. I collect skulls from the wilderness, and they sit amongst … Continue reading →

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Baobab skins get a coat of chain mail; Elephants get something else to eat…..

Posted on August 26, 2017 by wineandwilddogs

I am always tickled by the look-alike skins of baobabs and elephants…from baobab trunk… to elephant trunk… and the wrinkled limbs such as this foreleg… and this tiny little leg disappearing into the baobab trunk below…has that baby really just … Continue reading →

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Of Giant Snails and Tradition; Fire and Totems….

Posted on May 13, 2016 by wineandwilddogs

Of Giant Snails and Tradition; Fire and Totems…. In the Southeast lowveld of Zimbabwe, on the Save River, The Chauke Clan totem is the African Giant Snail…. here is my art installation of giant land snail shells and fire-fired clay … Continue reading →

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Category Archives: giant African snail

Painting and Sketching in my Garden of Eden; But Winter is Coming…….

Skulls and Flowers; Life and Death in the Garden of Eden

Baobab skins get a coat of chain mail; Elephants get something else to eat…..

Of Giant Snails and Tradition; Fire and Totems….

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