Boogie, an artist from Kanye, recently put the finishing touches to a mural of, Gomolemo Motswaledi, the late opposition leader, who died in a car accident a few months ago. The passionate artist was not commissioned by anyone to do the piece, but did it to honour the departed leader. “I did it after he passed on, it was my small tribute to him,” she says. Surprisingly, the politically shy Boogie says she never knew much about the much-loved Motswaledi and admits the piece was happenstance. She reveals she was touched when she saw multitudes throng the University of Botswana Stadium to bid farewell to him. “I didn’t know the man. I am not into politics. Everyone around me was all about him and his death and so were the newspapers. I got inspired and touched by all that and decided to do the piece,” she says. Unfortunately, the Gaborone-based artist has no contact with his family or his political party, but does have intentions to get the drawing out to the public. The mural was done on a Walcom tablet with colour pencils and she says she spent a good number of hours working on it. She used ArtRage to draw it on canvas.
She adds: “It was a worthwhile four hours.”
