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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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GOATZ; food, family, culture, storytelling, art, proverbs and so much more…

Posted on January 15, 2025 by wineandwilddogs

For 2025, I vote Goat!…. of food, of family, of culture, of art, of drums, of storytelling, of proverbs… Goats, GOATZ, really are the greatest of all time…. Worldwide goats are the GOAT, closely allied to man and domesticated for … Continue reading →

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Magical Madikwe meets my Wild Dog Art

Posted on January 18, 2023 by wineandwilddogs

The superb Madikwe Hills Private Game Lodge in South Africa is home to a diverse flora and fauna, including fascinating African wild dogs, and home to some of my wild dog art… This large oil painting of mine is a … Continue reading →

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Mopani Musings; Russet Leaves match my Wild Dogs’ Eyes….

Posted on September 12, 2020 by wineandwilddogs

wild dog eyes… 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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Marhumbini Mission in Gonarezhou; Education and Elephants!

Posted on November 12, 2019 by wineandwilddogs

Marhumbini Mission, by Clive Stockil, Lin Barrie and Mr. Lyson Masango, with Chilo guides John, Tor and Jasper….. Insights to the history of the Marhumbini Mission and those that occupied this remote location, close to the Mozambique border in the … 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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Red, red, Mopani red…….and rust, and gold, and orange, and yellow…

Posted on September 17, 2016 by wineandwilddogs

Red, red, Mopani red… The end of our lowveld winter is sparked by the jeweled red and rust Mopani leaves that prick our vision, tantalizing bursts of color against the cobalt winter skies at Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge on … Continue reading →

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Magical Madikwe meets my Wild Dog Art

Mopani Musings; Russet Leaves match my Wild Dogs’ Eyes….

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

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

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