Owl's Nest
Tanyanyiwa Nyandoro

'Lemon Opal' Stone

54cm (h)
19cm (w)
15cm (d)

19.5kg

SOLD

The upper half is a stylised bird's head with two wings circling back to meet at the tips; the space below is meant to be the nest.

Tanyanyiwa Nyandoro is one of our best young abstract sculptors and won the Bernard Matemera Foundation 'Artist Of The Year' prize in 2009.

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!