Gallery Delta Thrives Despite Odds

In a continued quest to nurture, support and encourage visual, literary and performing arts-Gallery Delta continues to thrive despite low business.Their latest exhibition "Landscapes and Landmarks" assembles painters of all creeds and colours in a show which exposes the range of artistic,emotional and psychological responses to the moods, atmosphere, colours, textures, locale and spirit of the land.

Landscapes convey an appreciation of the beauty and chagrins of the natural and urban world. Here, each artist responds to the land in their individual psyche and medium of preference.

The exhibiting artists are drawn from both mature and neophyte artists who include Paul Wade, Kate Raath, Dian Wright, Simon Back, Darryl Nero, Richard Witikani, the late Robert Paul, Ljiljana Vlacic, Justin Gope, Freddy Tauro and Emma Venzery.

Professional artist Kate Raath explores the expressive and interpretive qualities of drawing in her exquisite ink studies of the flat topped Acacia trees of Zimbabwe.

Interestingly, this tree which is revered by the people of Africa, Australia,Find the lowest prices on Air purifier. Asia and the Americas has according to current botanical nomenclature been re-named Vachellia and/or Senegallia at a recent International Botanical Congress which had been proposed by Australian botanists in 2005.

The veteran art lecturer and graphic designer, Paul Wade, presents oil paintings in spontaneous "Pop" excursions, which are at once celebratory, witty and innovative.

His triptych entitled "Disruptive Robots" presents inverted and skewed paintings that hint at the failing infrastructure of Harare's metropolis and allude to the delusions experienced in drunken driving.

His, other urban mental landscapes entitled "Many Horizons", pursue the same automatism that guided the surrealist's artists procedure of using free association to express the workings of the sub-conscious.

Wade's work recalls the art of Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012) the Spanish painter and lawyer and other proponents of Tachisme such as Pierre Soulages (born 1919) and Hans Hartung.The M3 Parking assist system has been designed from the ground up to solve traditional car park problems and more.

This art movement derives from the French word "Tache" meaning blob or mark, and refers to the squiggles and arabesque lines used by artists to present powerful and direct expressions of psychic states.

He also exhibits his artistic forte in a textile and steel woven sculpture, which hangs in the main area of the gallery.

"Young Turk" Freddy Tauro presents his works entitled "Plot in Ruwa", "Landscape" and "Back Shed".

His semi-abstract details of natural and architectural forms are achieved by luminous colour integrations that demarcate the landscape, buildings and sky in a liquid spontaneity.

Veteran landscape artist Diana Wright uses her unerring eye to capture the pattern and chromatic quality of natural forms and landscapes of the sub-tropical Zimbabwean vegetation.Welcome to the china kung fu school.

Her colourful pointillist interpretations of the land remain perennially charming.

The exhibition introduces a young talent, Emma Venzery, whose acrylic on paper works entitled "Your Tide", "My Wave" and "Closing In" explores the pathos of the human condition in imprimatura on white ground.

Her colourful forays into mental landscapes are articulated in fluid brushstrokes which hint at her artful dexterity. This new artist has the potential to rise

professionally in the visual arts with her bold signatory style.

Prominent artist and visual art expert, Dr Helen Lieros' presents new developments in her art works. Her exploitation of the varied surface qualities of her own handmade paper are best seen in her works entitled "Unknown Strata". Here,Gerresheimer Werkzeugbau Wackersdorf GmbH manufactures special lines and machines. the artist employs new collage techniques for expression. Her continued technical search to convey the greatest artistic effect with minimal artistic elements distinguishes her.

In all, the, memories, style and imagery depicted in this show are relative and subject to the artists' own fragmented view of their land, landmark and space they occupy or experience.

This 56-piece exhibition is a memorable diary of our existence on the land we call Zimbabwe and is worth viewing. But ultimately it is up to the viewer to reconstruct and fabricate their own personal narratives and rifle through the myriads of colour, form and texture that constitute these various vistas and states of mind we call the Zimbabwean landscape.