Original artwork description:

Unique Hand-printed woodcut inspired by Zulu beadwork and 'mbenge'.

I have always loved and am strongly influ­enced by the shapes, colours and cul­tural objects that I encoun­tered liv­ing in and trav­el­ling the South African rural areas with my father. Dur­ing my BA Fine Art, I majored in His­tory of Art which cul­mi­nated in a research project on Zulu Bead­work (I was lucky enough to spend time with Pro­fes­sor Frank Jolles in Pieter­mar­itzburg look­ing through his col­lec­tion of tra­di­tional Zulu bead­work — many of the items were des­tined to be shipped to the UK — and the British Museum). I also worked part-time for an African Art Cen­tre in Hill­crest and got to see, draw and enjoy a wide vari­ety of cul­tural objects and sculp­tures from all over Africa.

Materials used:

Hand printed woodcut using Japanese and Italian papers and watercolour onto Somerset fine art paper

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