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You best serve the world by doing what you love.<\/a><\/h3>\n

I often start sculpting without knowing what I am going to make. As I sculpt, the ideas begin to reveal\u00a0themselves. As I listen to my ideas, and I converse with the stone, the work comes through me.\u00a0A sculpture must leave room for the viewer to think about the message it carries.<\/a><\/h3>\n

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For Collen Nyanhongo, sculpting is a conversation that requires deep listening. He listens with his hands as he touches the stones shape and surface. He listens with a thinking heart to the words, emotions, rhythms, spirits, and mysteries that dance within the stone.<\/h2>\n

He co-creates with the stone and together they form a visual story – a timeless piece of grace that blends traditional and abstract art.<\/h2>\n

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\n[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial author=”Roy Guthrie” company_name=”Chapungu Sculpture Park” _builder_version=”3.2″ background_color=”#ada075″ background_layout=”dark”]As a stone sculptor working by hand, Collen combines great technical skill with an exceptional ability to capture sensitive\u00a0moods and feelings in a semi-abstract\u00a0manner.\u00a0 His renderings of birds in flight capture their\u00a0essence in a direct and often\u00a0minimalist technique–reducing the subject matter to essentials.\u00a0 In the sphere of human expression he is\u00a0masterful and very imaginative, and in all his works he brings out the best from the beautiful hard stones in which he\u00a0prefers to work with impeccable attention to finish and final appearance.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As a person, I have always found Collen to be meticulous, to a fault, in keeping his commitments.\u00a0 His frankness and openness, sense of humor and ever ready smile, ability to laugh\u00a0at himself and willingness\u00a0to assist physically when need, make him a person who is consistently re-invited to artistic events all of the world…His sculptures\u00a0alone and uplifting and often inspiring.\u00a0 His teaching skills are execptional= encouraging and inspiring new talent.\u00a0 As a person is he responsible, motivated and committed.<\/em><\/strong>
\n[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial author=”Art Review, London” _builder_version=”3.2″ background_color=”#ada075″ background_layout=”dark”]The marvelous Shona sculpture from Zimbabwe not only speak for Africa, but they speak for all of us.\u00a0 They restore a dignity to art which it is in danger of losing.<\/strong>
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\n[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial author=”Jinx Davis” company_name=”Living Arts Corporation” _builder_version=”3.2″ background_color=”#ada075″ background_layout=”dark”]Collen Nyanhongo is one of the few who can authentically and simultaneously act as a solo artist while illuminating his homeland’s spiritual, artistic and social struggles to a larger ecology.\u00a0 He is a powerful and gentle bridge builder living in a time\u00a0when bridges are essential to our survival.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It is always humbling to be with Collen Nyanhongo and watch him sculpt.\u00a0 Persevering a life as an artist in Zimbabwe is uncertain and bewildering under the cloud of the nation’s economy and the enormous lack of international buyers which has been amplified by Zimbabwe’s political and economic woes.\u00a0 Nonetheless, Collen remains hopeful, tenacious and trusting.\u00a0 The artist and his art is an amazing phenomenon to behold.<\/em><\/span><\/em><\/strong>
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Collen Nyanhongo uses hand tools to sculpt his stone. He listens to the stone to work with it as it is shaped into form and feelings. Watch this video to see him work.<\/p>\n

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