Padare
Oil on Canvas,
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Oil on Canvas
20x0794m
W: 1400mm x H: 1000mm x D: 25mm
W: 55" x H: 39" x D: 1"
Approx. Weight: 4kg
This work is
unframed
Price
US$ 17,788
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Scale
About "Padare"
Pa dare
I have called this painting Pa dare - this literally translates to
The Place of meeting
however, used in context, it means
The Place of Meeting for Respectful Gentlemen
The reason for this name is clear as the picture is centered on the Baobab This Tree, as seen from the East directly opposite over the river on the Chewore north side.
The tree is our meeting place, where we meet annually with those who have left us . The meeting is not a noisy affair it is quiet and respectful, where we remember and, as we watch the movie that is our minds, we see life for what it is - beautiful and unpredictable.
The Elephant beside the tree is leaving to join others who are feeding close by that have left the shade of this great tree - just as we do when we leave this life to join others that have left before us.
There are few things that depict Africa as well as the Baobab! They have an aura around them that is almost inexplicable. Great scars that adorn their massive trunks like medals won in some far off campaign - create the character that we feel when we stare up their majestic presence!
They are quintessential to Africa, and it is fitting that one of them is our meeting place!
Below the sun sets on another meeting place -a pan, like so many of those magnificent sites that we have had the pleasure of visiting it symbolizes the peace and synergies of nature in an otherwise seemingly harsh environment.
Symbolically the elephant and the baboon represent two things firstly our trek into the meeting place (I am the elephant by the way!) and secondly they have been the subject of many hours of thought and discussions around the many camp fires that have been shared in the Zambezi Valley
The wild dog the hunters predators - us perhaps? also looking into Pa dare, because as we well know we also meet there!
Life is short live it, feast on it, smell the roses!
Will Maberly
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About Astley
Africa is not a subject I discovered -- it is the landscape I grew up
listening to.
My work centres on baobabs and other enduring trees of the
Zimbabwean wilderness. These forms stand at a scale beyond the
human. Marked by seasons, drought, fire and the passage of
elephants, they carry visible records of time.
I am drawn to their presence -- not as symbols, but as living
structures that have witnessed generations before us and will
likely remain long after. In their stillness there is a sense of
continuity that shifts one's perspective.
Painting allows me to slow that encounter. It invites silence. My
intention is to create work that encourages a deeper breath -- a
moment in which the viewer feels both small and quietly
connected to something older and enduring.
Each piece is grounded in lived experience of the Zimbabwean
bush, where endurance is not metaphor but reality.
Will Astley Maberly
Price Range
US$ 71-18,834
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Exhibitions
Salzburg
Harare
Private commissions world wide
collections in South Africa, Zimbabwe, USA, Europe , United Kingdom, china
Education
Self Taught
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