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Born in Harare, Zimbabwe, I come from a family of artists. From
an early age I began stone sculpting and in 1998 I began showing
them and I worked at the Cannon Peterson Art Centre and The Chapungu
Sculpture Centre in Harare with over 180 stone sculpttors. I work
in different types of stone such as cobalt, soap stones, black
granite, serpentines, marble, sandstone and limestone. Altough
stone sculpting is my main medium I also do paintings, ceramics
and metal sculptures.
My
inspiration comes from day to day life, dreams, imagination and
the stones themselves. My sculptures are filled with human culture,
wildlife, nature and feelings. These sculptures are all hand carved
using chisels and hammers, chasseing combs, files and rasps, smoothed
with six to fifteen water sand papers of different textures, then
fired to a moderate temperature, waxed and polished for durability
and to expose the natural colours that you see when stones are
wet. All my sculptures are original and one offs, I work straight
into the stone without having to do a model first. Only a number
of sculptures that I make are created from sketches.
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Blessing
Sanyanga
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