I carry Zimbabwe within me. Its red earth, its endless horizons, its skies lit by thunder and fire. Though I am far from it, the memory of the land of balancing rocks
never loosens its hold. It ingrained in me an adoration for nature; for there, its magnificence is in every sunrise, in every sunset. In Zimbabwe, space is 'felt' and
within this space, time unfolds differently. It stills, it slows down. I remember and I long for the smell of rain on dry soil, the warmth of the sun whose dry heat
seeps into the body, the glorious roar of thunder as it rolls across the land and the quiet that only wide open spaces can give.

These paintings are born of that longing. They are my most painterly works – large, immersive canvases filled with bold fields of colour; fierce, luminous,
uncontained, echoing the vastness of the horizons of my childhood; large enough to hold the scale of animals whose presence fills the land. They are not just
depictions of animals but living portraits of strength, memory and kinship.

If we observe closely, we'll find that animals teach us many things about our own humanity... the best parts of it.. the parts we should strive to preserve. These
paintings reach back across distance to keep alive what Zimbabwe gave me – stillness, strength and the sense of belonging to a place greater than oneself.