PAINTINGS

"We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect. Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises." 

EGON FRIEDELL (1930's)

The Honesty System:

(150x90cm) Airbrushed & painted oil on canvas. One of the most attractive things about Galston, is its informal roadside stalls which sell a variety of produce grown on local acreages.

JONGWE 

(80x100cm) Oil on canvas with glass beads texture on comb.   

EXOTIC FLOWER

(40x48cm) Oil on canvas with glass beads texture in comb and waddles. 

NATIONAL SYMBOL

(55x66cm framed) Oil on canvas rooster with bead texture details. Collage background of artists' 1982 Zimbabwe election memorabilia encapsulated in resin. Handmade, custom picture frame by artist. 

MATTHEW 9:21

 (45x45cm) Bitumen paint and shellac on canvas.

In painting these studies of hands, I was looking at how to express the intangible qualities of spirituality.

LEGEND OF GALSTON GORGE

(150x90cm) Oil on canvas. For more on this artwork's inspiration, click through to my News page...


CHICKEN PAINTINGS

Mr. Campbell, who lived next door to our family home in Que Que, owned a bossy Bantam cockrel whom we called 'Baggage;'' after the way his orange feathers fell near his little black tail and looked like saddlebags. He was always sneaking through the barbed wire fence to romance the hens in our coop and fight with our cockrel which was twice his size. 'Jongwe' is the Shona word for 'rooster.' As children, Kalima and I played with our chickens for hours. They became so tame that they would perch on my shoulders just like a pirate's parrot, wear my doll's bonnets and bibs, or even sit quietly rotating upon the turntable of our record player in the lounge much to the raucous delight of the entire family.   

Exotic Flower detail. This painting is a representation of my mother- an English rose who never took to being transplanted in Africa. The black sunflower is all about my own metamorphosis into an exotic flower...

 

THE BEST PERFUME IS WITHIN

(50x55cm) Oil on canvas on board, with raised text. 

 ANGEL

(45x45cm) Bitumen paint and shellac on canvas.

WALKING THROUGH THE DOOR: (80x100cm) Self-portrait in acrylic paint oncanvas, with background collage of Rhodesian and South African memorabilia. Click on the image for self- portrait analysis.

MAFUSHWA HAIR 

(50x60cm) Silkie chicken, oil on canvas.

DUMELA

(40x48cm) Acrylic on canvas.

MARRIAGE AND LOVE

(50x60cm) Oil on canvas, inspired by William Blake's "He loves to sit and hear me sing, then laughing sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty." 

IMPART

(45x45cm) Bitumen paint and shellac on canvas.