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This cookie is set as default session Cookie name in config.php in config folder in CodeIgniter. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. I paint and print in layers – the final image might not emerge as I thought it would, I allow it to change as I work so that in the end the process has determined the outcome. Binding all this together is colour – I like to manipulate paint or printing ink so that my colours ‘sing’. I am inspired by other artists glimpses into a world of Giotto or of Hokusai or 12 th century tapestries will emerge alongside my own immediate world. My paintings and prints constitute a mish mash of my life, sometimes I am inspired by a view into my garden or by petals fallen onto the ground or stars in the sky. I weave stories into my paintings as I paint and I document places I have experienced and things I have seen. Stories and photographs, which play a role in my remembering, continue to play an important part in my work. My last three solo exhibitions were held at the Everard Read Gallery in Johannesburg. My first solo exhibition was in 1977 at the Walsh Marais Gallery in Durban – I have continued exhibiting both nationally and internationally since. Thereafter my life has consisted of teaching (at schools, tertiary institutions and non-government organizations) and making Art – oil paintings on canvas, printmaking, mosaic commissions.

Formal schooling took place in Durban and Pietermaritzburg as did my Technicon and University years. My first few years, of which I remember little, other than from stories and photographs, happened in Kranskop near the Tugela valley. I was born just before midnight on the last day of 1953.

Zwelidumile Geelboi Mgxaji Mslaba 'Dumile' Feni.

Zapiro, Thierry Cassuto and the ZANews Puppet Workshop.

The value of art by michael findlay