Diving Mermaid
Peter Gwisa

'Lemon Opal' Stone

Approx. 40cm high

£195

The body twists upwards to the mermaid's tail.

The mermaid is a common theme in Zimbabwean sculpture.

This is a lovely small sculpture by one of the most exciting young artists working in Zimbabwe today.

Lemon Opal Stone is the local Zimbabwean name for a translucent pale green serpentine stone. It is of a similar hardness to springstone (i.e. a lot harder than what is known as common opal stone, which scratches easily like soapstone). It does NOT contain opals - beware of other sites whose ignorance leads them to suggest that it does, or that it is semi-precious. It's nice stone, but not that nice!