13 Jun 2013

Roger Brown, Ompatile Sebuelo and Stuart Arnold are displaying their creative artworks at the Thapong Visual Arts Centre.

The exhibition, dubbed: Colour, Shape and Light; Three Creative Impressions of Ngamiland started on June 11 and will go on until July 5. The artworks depicted the social life in Maun and created a dialogue between the picture and the viewer.

Thapong coordinator, Reginald Bakwena praised the artists for their artworks noting that the placing of work was enticing and there was a sense of originality in their work. The Zimbabwean-born Brown, who has been living in Botswana for 13 years, said his love for art was encouraged by his parents who were both artists.

He had his first solo art exhibition at Chobe Chilwero Lodge in 2005 and since then he has had many more exhibitions in both Botswana and South Africa. His paintings were bought and collected by people from all over the world and he painted mainly in oils on canvas while he enjoyed depicting the African wild and the traditional life style of Botswana.

Sebuelo works as an art teacher at Okavango International School and is an independent ceramic sculptor. His work had been exhibited at Nelson Mandela University graduates exhibition, Artists of Botswana, Thapong members’ exhibition and Presidential awards exhibition.

Arnold is an award winning photographer in the UK and the US as well as in Botswana and has just published his second book dubbed Maun Mothers with Kalahari images.

He is also an associate member of the Royal Photographic Society in Great Britain.ENDS