Farai is undeniably a Master of his craft. This work shows his total control of his medium, Butter Jade stone from Birchenough Bridge in Manicaland on the Zimbabwe boarder with Mozambique. The hard brittle stone is a challenge to work with, not only because of its hardness, but also because of the impregnations of dark unakite (petrifies vegetable material) in the stone.
He has positioned his composition subtly vertical with the striations so that they enhance the surface and not detract the brilliant play of textures on the hat, earrings, necklace and arm-bands give visual excitement that rhyme like a poem from top to bottom. And . . . that face. What a face. He has the magical ability to make stone come alive. Its uncanny.
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The Crisson and Hind African Gallery is located in Bermuda and we have been in business since 1999. During that time, we have successfully shipped sculpture to our clients worldwide! We ship by DHL International and we pass on our attractive DHL rate to our customers. We use DHL box rates for our small sculptures and for the larger and heavier sculptures, we build custom wooden crates and this cost would be calculated in the final shipping cost. DHL does not have an automatic shipping rate calculator for items shipping from Bermuda so please contact us through the Request a Quote for Shipping Price form. If you have any questions or would like to discuss your favorite piece, please call us at 441 735-8833, 441 295-1117 or 441-337-0922 or send us an email, CandHAfricanGallery@gmail.com and we will call you back.
