Five years ago.Five years ago, Fran Fearnley, a freelance writer and editor living forward a farm in Bailieboro, Ont began collecting Zimbabwean art. Then, she casted some of the green fields around her hundred years farmhouse into a stunning outdoor gallery, placing African stone and thicket sculptures on tree trunks. She went further, travelling to Harare to papal court and buy works, and then to bring to Canada to the shores of Rice Lake, Zimbabwean artists for month-long exposing tours. In the summer of 2004 the visitor was 27-year-old Perlagia Mutyavavari, a Shona stone artist who learned her art in the town of Chitungwisa, a middle for stone sculpture in Zimbabwe. Mutyavavari uses the stones of the Zimbabwe countryside--serpentine, opal and springstone. Parts of the works are left unwrought and others laboriously sanded, heated and waxed to a high sheen. "I have been delighted from the beauty and open space of this landscape in Canada." "I miss my husband and 14-month-old son" she said at an lay open House recently on the Fearnley farm. "I made a plastic art called "In my Thoughts" for them. ZimART also has indoor showings of African work in the winter months Email: zimart@sympatico.ca Web site: www.zimart.org COPYRIGHT 2004 Catholic recently made known Times, Inc. |
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