Category Archives: serenity

Map of Africa; Old Light or New Dawn?

Posted on May 25, 2025 by wineandwilddogs

Africa Day 25th May… AFRICA DAY: my painting “Map of Africa” is a brooding, hopeful waterhole lit by the burnt orange glow of the sun beneath the strange and dark horizon… Old Light? …. Or a New Dawn….?! shimmering gold, … Continue reading →

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Gonarezhou Gatherings; Sensational Sunsets

Posted on July 13, 2021 by wineandwilddogs

June 2021 Gonarezhou How special to have you all, dear family and friends,  together in person and together “online”!!… in this wonderful place called Gonarezhou –  Sacred Place of Elephants… for a few days of surprise celebrations for Clives 70th … Continue reading →

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Think Social, Think Survival; Be Gentle……..

Posted on January 5, 2021 by wineandwilddogs

This New Year of 2021, I have something to hang straightaway on your wall…especially for you during stay at home lockdowns… energize your space! My art collaboration, with make up artist Kelli Barker … (photography by DaXiOn and Lin Barrie), … Continue reading →

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Classic Blue and Lin Barrie Art; Pantone Colour of the Year for 2020

Posted on December 13, 2019 by wineandwilddogs

thinking ahead for the New Year, 2020…. What a dreamy colour- Classic Blue is the Pantone Colour of the year for 2020…night skies, meditation and dreams abound! and it is a colour I love painting with, as you can see … 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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Painted Wolf Wines; Wild Dogs and Wine Tastings Triumph at Chilo!

Posted on June 17, 2019 by wineandwilddogs

Painted Wolves, whether the wines or the animals, always get our attention at Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge! A weekend of wine tastings with Painted Wolf Wines and talks by the African Wildlife Conservation Fund, always creates enthusiasm. and no matter … Continue reading →

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Mahove Tented camp; Big skies and Terrapins, Lions and Waterlilies

Posted on April 27, 2019 by wineandwilddogs

Across the still-high Save River by boat, and into the Park, past the parks reception and found skulls… this small warthog skull speaks to me, I love the funky shapes and moods of bone and skulls, and have just finished … Continue reading →

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Kgalagadi safari; Jackals and Lions; Meerkats and Flowers…

Posted on March 19, 2019 by wineandwilddogs

Continuing our Safari, our Adventure!….(please bear with me … many more photos are to be added in the next few weeks, but I am going offline to my bush house for a while…meanwhile I have also created a blog on … Continue reading →

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Waiting for the Rains in Gonarezhou, with a prime, fat Lion and a beautiful Tusker!

Posted on December 26, 2018 by wineandwilddogs

Hot weather greets every sunrise, no rain to speak of yet in Gonarezhou, mostly scattered showers and we wait eagerly for the real thing! Even the small rains we have had are enough to create green grass galore, Travels through … Continue reading →

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The Elephant in the Shower…

Posted on September 24, 2018 by wineandwilddogs

The Elephant in the Shower A tented shower on the edge of the steep bank of the Runde River, hoisted upon a carpet of gold, under a Cordyla Africana tree in the wilderness of Gonarezhou, Zimbabwe. This ‘place of the … Continue reading →

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