Relentless: Wilson Ngoni's brush on another level

Wilson Ngoni inside his studio PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES
Wilson Ngoni inside his studio PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES

It is 15 years since his powerful piece the ‘Antenatal Tears’, better known as the ‘Pregnant Skeleton’, and a lot has happened in the life of an artist Wilson Ngoni. Much of it he has put down in his explosive bear-it-all memoirs titled ‘Doors to my Eyes’, but one thing has stayed constant, his painting.

Three days before his highly anticipated solo art exhibition titled Relentless at Thapong Arts Visual Centre, Art & Culture visited the painter at his studio in Kopong on the outskirts of Gaborone.

“Sorry I just woke up,” he apologies after a fist bump greeting. Inside his studio, which doubles as his bedroom, he pointed at the cause of his sleepless night. It is the painting titled Beating Around The Bush, which shows a close up image of an elephant grazing in the bush.

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