Gare: The artist who likes playing with colour

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With three generations of women artists in his family, there was little chance that Ray Gare would escape the clutches of the arts. According to the artist from Mochudi, his great-grandmother whom he refers to as Mmankgwana, was a potter of note in the village who used to inspire other women as far as pottery is concerned.

His grandmother was a good weaver while his mother Maopene Gare was into basketry.

Gare says that both her mother and grandmother greatly encouraged him as an artist and that whenever the latter came back for holidays from South Africa where she worked as a maid, she would bring him some crayons.

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