Category Archives: painting

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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A self portrait at midnight in the garden of good and evil; malaria muti, lion love, hot chocolate, hope and reminiscence…

Posted on June 28, 2024 by wineandwilddogs

I took my last dose of malaria muti last night, a process, getting better but could not sleep, many thoughts and memories rolling inside my head: bittersweet lost times with old friends, some evil times… hopeful new times with old … Continue reading →

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Creation in an interior, my abstract wallpaper at Decorex Africa

Posted on June 7, 2024 by wineandwilddogs

http://www.instagram.com/reel/C76nYPMKCY2/ Robin Sprong and Km Williams at Decorex Africa… “Creation” is a small abstract painting of mine.. and I am delighted to see the @kim_williams_design @Decorex Africa stand featuring it as #abstract #wallpaper called #Creation in large scale with @robinsprongwallpapers … Continue reading →

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This child of mine; my muse and inspiration…

Posted on June 6, 2024 by wineandwilddogs

This child of mine, Kelli Barker, has always been my best collaborator, muse and inspiration… 2024 started with us being creatively inspired by the launch of Design Life Magazine.. Kelli, Milly (magazine muse) and Lin in the photo… Make up … Continue reading →

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Palm Passion; Art, Nature and Poetry

Posted on May 29, 2024 by wineandwilddogs

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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Nudibranchs meet my paintbrush; They dance and swirl like miniature Sega Dancers….

Posted on May 4, 2024 by wineandwilddogs

Stunning photos and facts on a a great adventure blog by – I love painting these gorgeous #Nudibranchs /aka #seaslugs, such as these ones I painted in #Mauritius, hence the name sega sea slug, as it ‘dances’ through the water … Continue reading →

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Dancing skirts and cellphones; beads and hut paintings

Posted on May 1, 2024 by wineandwilddogs

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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Venice Biennale; Beads and Boundaries; 2024

Posted on April 20, 2024 by wineandwilddogs

As the art world converges in Venice to celebrate under the theme “Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere,” (conceived by Brazil’s Adriano Pedrosa), Zimbabwe is well represented at the Zimbabwe Pavilion facilitated by the Zimbabwe National Art Gallery at the Venice … Continue reading →

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

Posted on February 19, 2024 by wineandwilddogs

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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