I was born in 1970 and raised on a farm in Zimbabwe, where the land was my first teacher. My childhood unfolded in the hills and along the rivers of our family farm, and it was there that I learned to watch closely — light on water, the weight of silence, the slow language of animals and trees.
In the Zimbabwe of the 1980s, art materials were scarce. My school art room was almost empty, and so pencil became both necessity and companion. With it, I drew portraits and wildlife for friends, learning patience, restraint, and the quiet power of observation.
After school in Harare, I trained as an interior designer and spent 18 years in the exhibition and events industry as a designer and business owner. Over time, creativity was absorbed by management, and the screen replaced the page. In 2011, feeling increasingly disconnected, I chose to step away from the corporate world in order to return to drawing — the most basic and honest form of making I know.
My family and I moved to the rural town of Howick in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, where space, slowness, and landscape again became part of daily life.
Pencil remains my chosen medium. Graphite allows me to work slowly, to carve texture from paper, and to explore contrast, depth, and presence. Each drawing is rooted in firsthand experience — a quiet record of time spent looking, listening, and being in the African outdoors.
