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Pangolin awareness is gaining momentum…. Jewellery, Literature and Paintings..This is “How We Roll!”

Posted on January 25, 2017 by wineandwilddogs

Pangolins are on a roll in this blog…. endangered and trafficked world-wide for food, magic and medicine, they NEED our help! The work of Lisa Hywood of the Tikki Hywood Trust in Zimbabwe, is never ending….. conservation, education and legislation challenges abound…. … Continue reading →

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Nguni cattle and herdboys at Mahenye; glorious colours inspire my art …

Posted on November 29, 2016 by wineandwilddogs

Nguni cattle and brave little herdboys at Mahenye inspire me, chaperoning their cattle through elephant inhabited thickets and river banks on a daily basis… Mahenye is home to cattle and elephants, the contact zone between humans and wildlife…a challenging … 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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Of Elephants and Water, Wild Dogs and Birding….

Posted on May 24, 2016 by wineandwilddogs

Of Elephants and Water, Wild Dogs and Birding…. May 20th, 2016 We have just spent four intense days at Tsavene… our beautiful but neglected Senuko bush house. Waves and waves of buffalo coming to our muddy Tsavene waterhole, and then … 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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Deeper, and deeper, into Africa!

Posted on May 2, 2016 by wineandwilddogs

The HAC Caravan lifts effortlessly and we wing our way over the neat cluster of high rise buildings that puncture Harare’s CBD, surrounded in the south by sprawling fast growing hi-density suburbia- row upon row of little box houses standing … Continue reading →

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An amazing mollusk: the Giant African Land Snail, revered totem of the Chauke Clan…

Posted on March 13, 2016 by wineandwilddogs

I love sketching the shells of these snails, so sculptural…. Achatina fulica is a species of land snail in the family Achatinidae, known commonly as the giant African land snail. Wikipedia says: Outside of its native range this snail thrives … Continue reading →

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Burnt Wood, Fallen Branches and Old Frames Into Something New

Posted on February 16, 2016 by wineandwilddogs

I have always been fascinated with the possibilities of re cycling objects, melting histories and creating something new and unique from a combination of older stories…. I had a house fire- kept the charred stairs… and hardwood lintels scarred with … Continue reading →

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Baobabs and Wire; Elephants and Mud

Posted on January 11, 2016 by wineandwilddogs

Early morning on the deck at Chilo leads into a fabulous day of exploring the newly wet Gonarezhou…on the lookout for our guests favorite animal…Elephants!….today strangely absent today from the landscape! They must have moved far and wide with the little … Continue reading →

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Baby rhino “George”, born in about the same month as his namesake, Prince George

Posted on September 14, 2015 by wineandwilddogs

September 2013, Chairman of Lowveld Rhino Trust, Clive Stockil, was awarded the Prince William Award for Conservation in Africa by the Prince himself, who has been the Royal Patron for Tusk Trust since 2005. This was the first time that … Continue reading →

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