Empowering Women

Medium - leather strips, chalk, charcoal and oil on canvas 
 
Love can be complex but the Agape or fatherly love is the highest form of love anyone can receive. I am in awe of a God who can love his own creation, something beneath himself. I attempt to show this using the Dirac equation these are proven and known equations that equate to love. Pii is also known to equate to infinity which I used to express the infinite nature of love. The sketches represent mans fallen nature but this does not dissuade a powerful God from loving us.

Whats love got to do with it?

Ndangariro

Sunday Best

Sweet Mother

Patience

Mother's Love

Lilian Magodi Artists Statement

Dancing break

Longing

Sorry

Unwanted

Medum - Fabric paints, dyes and tints 
 
A harmonious blend of colors and patterns that evoke a sense of freedom and the natural flow of emotions.

Letting it flow

Fabric paints, dyes and tints 
 
This piece captures the chaos and beauty of turning a new leaf, with rich textures and layered hues.

The dirty next Page

Fabric paints, dyes and tints 
 
An abstract explosion of color and form, inviting viewers to interpret its dynamic energy and fluid movement.

Untitled

Kimberly Tatenda Gakanja Artists Statement

Fabric paints, spray paints 
 
An intense and powerful piece that delves into themes of inner turmoil and the struggle for self-control.

Self Destruct

Fabric paints, tints and dyes 
 
 A striking contrast of beauty and danger, this artwork reflects on the duality of nature and human emotions.

The Toxic Flower

Fabric paints, spray paints 
 
This painting explores the interaction of different elements, creating a dynamic and thought-provoking composition.

New Reactions

Fabric paints,. tints and dyes 
 
A culmination of experience and wisdom, this piece celebrates the complexity and richness of mature thoughts and feelings.

Mature Phrase

Medium - Fabric paints, dyes and tints 
 
A vibrant depiction of transformation, blending delicate patterns and bold colors to symbolize growth and metamorphosis.

Butterfly phrase 1

A painting about a mother trying to put a child to sleep. I wanted the viewer to question what was real and what was not. I use real kentic fabric in some places, I also paint other parts of the pattern to blend it. This creates an interesting dycotomy, the objective being to question whats real and unreal. Further exploration has of kentic material has lead Roselyne to create exciting connections between 
 
Oil paint and kentic fabic on Canvas

Come Now! Its Time to Sleep

Kentic fabric is not authentically African but its rich history is woven into our culture. It was in fact introduced by the Dutch although the motifs were uniquely African. At this point I felt the need to create my own patterns or rather use the existing motifs and create a continuation. In time to pray I am taking certain elements of a preexisting design and blending them and creating a new pattern. In life we have daily activities that we create a pattern around. We had done these activities to our young ones because they have yielded us success.

Time to Pray

I have been working on a series called “An Escapade of Textures and Emotions“. Essentially an exploration of threads, fibres and fabric, that I use to try and explain certain innate emotions. One of my hobbies is sewing, I found that hand sewing or stitching can be a means to permanently attach certain elements instead of glueing them.

Reflecting Back

Medium - Stitching, threads, acrylic, charcoal and oil paint on canvas 
 
In this painting I am using threads to explore the inflammatory nature of the words released in anger and frustration. Words take on a viper like nature that can sting and bite into the very core of our being. Words can be so damaging if not tempered with patience and love. The back ground is like an inferno being lit up by these words. Sometimes our words literally run to hurt others in inexplicable ways

The Inferno

Roselyne Marikasi Artists Statement

96.5x102cmMedium – cloth, threads, paper and oil on canvas Engulfed talks about a sense of being completely overwhelmed. It is also a reflection of tumultuous times that we are living in. I thought to chronicle the effects what we were experiencing both in daily lives and world wide. Covid brought about great changes and fear.

Engulfed

Paper, fabric and oil on canvas 
 
This is a painting about optimism. I created this painting during covid lock-down period. Covid was a peculiar time in our lives that challenged the very core our beings in myriad ways. The absence of social interaction and physical touch with our loved ones left us wondering if normal would return. In this mist of this I thought that of the best way to use my time was contemplate on brighter days to come. Giving way to hope and the idea that life would indeed return to normal.

Brighter Days

Medium - Thread, paper and oil on canvas stitching, threads, lace and oil on canvas‘ 
 
Womb-man’explores the idea of the womans womb and cycle as a kind of ecosystem completely able recreate and adjust to a fetus. I also reference the struggle to conceive that some women experience. Often requiring the intervention of science to procreate. This is also a double entrede where I make reference to covid as a disturbance that caused the earths ecosystem to go awry. I hint on the idea of external forces symbolized by test tubes as reason for covid.

Womb.man

Medium - Threads, kentic motifs, stitching and oil on canvas 
 
I explore the nature of the soul as an eternal being affected by actions and words of others and can be wounded, but unaffected in its physical nature. I use small motifs to represent soul wounds as small attachments that are reminiscent of ants. These attachments can be shaken off but if not dealt with can develop attachments to the Soul.

Eternal Soul

Threads and oil on canvas“ 
 
I can’t Breathe” explores the idea thatcovid does not discriminate it touches allpeople of all races. This a disease has that didn't discriminate

I can't Breathe

Medium - Wefts & fabric and oil on canvas 
 
This painting represents deep forged relationships and rooted in the depths. The ocean represents these depths.

Reflection

Medium - Leather, fabric, pen and oil paint on canvas 
 
 In Africa family represents the strongest ties. Unfortunately we don’t choose what families we are born into or our countries of birth. These are unbreakable bonds. I use leather strips which came from the tassels of a handbag I made to explore the deep and often complex connections formed by these bonds. Leather is a durable material that can stand the test of time. Similarly family bonds are difficult to break and last our life time. Werther we have good or bad relationships. We suffer the burden of dealing with generational patterns that come from being born in particular family. But there is beauty in unity and being connected. Separation can be regarded as detrimental or rebellious, represented by the strips that look like insects

Ties

An Exhibition, dedicated to the Women Artists of Zimbabwe - Part of the 1st Zimbabwe Online Exhibition.

Exhibition Hall 2 - Celebrating Female African Art from Zimbabwe