“She’s not worried or busy or needing anybody else for anything, she’s just sitting quite contently.”
Jonathan achieves the shiny surfaces by sanding them smooth, then applying wax and polishing them to a shine. By contrast, he uses a file to create the rough matt white texture of her hair.
Lepidolite is a mineral of the mica group, containing lithium. This variety of lepidolite, from the mine in Bikita – one of just two sources in Zimbabwe – is a lovely shade of lilac. Interestingly, we also have another sculpture by Jonathan from this year’s collection in the darker lepidolite from the other mine, in Mutoko.
