Butter Jade, which only comes from Birchenough Bridge in Manicaland on Zimbabawe’s eastern border with Mozambique, is Farai’s favorite stone. Cream colored with dark striations and passages of gray-green, the stone is very hard and challenging to carve, over six on Mohr’s scale of hardness.
Every square inch of the surface is lovingly worked. Every stone that Farai uses to create his sculptures is investigated early in the process to find the “quietest” part of the stone to position the face. He is a master of texture . . . hair, fabric, necklaces, and earrings are all given loving treatment to provide visual variation and differentiation from the skin of the head, neck, and shoulders. The special skills of a true artisan.
Farai's innate skill to make stone come alive is certainly manifested here. The tilt of the head, the complexity of the hair and the sumptuousness of her body are touches wrestled from the stone by a true master.
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SHIPPING
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.
