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Owl Family
Tanyanyiwa Nyandoro

'Lemon Opal' Stone

49cm (h)
19cm (w)
13cm (d)

13.5kg

SOLD

From different angles, the large eyes of the owls peer out.

This is a real 360° sculpture and the limited number of photographs make it hard to do it justice.

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!

stone sculpture by Zimbabwean Shona artist Tanyanyiwa Nyandoro: view 1
thumbnail 1 of stone sculpture 'Owl Family' by Zimbabwean Shona artist Tanyanyiwa Nyandoro thumbnail 2 of stone sculpture 'Owl Family' by Zimbabwean Shona artist Tanyanyiwa Nyandoro thumbnail 3 of stone sculpture 'Owl Family' by Zimbabwean Shona artist Tanyanyiwa Nyandoro