Spirits of the Valley
Oil on Canvas,
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11,930
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Spirits of the Valley
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Details
Oil on Canvas
20x0794m
W: 1200mm x H: 800mm x D: 25mm
W: 47" x H: 31" x D: 1"
Approx. Weight: 4kg
This work is
unframed
Price
US$ 11,930
Scale
About "Spirits of the Valley"
Perhaps it is the prospect of life that means the most ,the possibility that we have the next twenty four hours ? Sooner or later we learn there are no guaranties of life in this form however such is our obsession with the future that we are seldom living in the present living our lives in an imagery of a better place , a better life style
Is it that prospect that is actually the thrill to life ? They say its the hunt that is the thrill not the actual killing ! or perhaps we just subconsciously work on the fact that we are in fact timeless ?
Life however is something we build each day at a time , like a painting , each brushstroke is an experience we live with , these brush strokes are the wisdom we grow in !
Time is nothing but a measurement that we use as a way of shortening our lives and putting limits to it yes that's time we live by it we plan by it and we box everything up in to it and yet in the face of Nature and its immeasurable majesty , we are humbled
As the sun slips toward the horizon these old trees Like sentrys , watch and monitor all life around them quietly living each moment as it is .Their trunks anointed with markings and messages from generations of elephants , they are the notice boards in the thick Zambezi Valley Jesse .
There is an aura that exists even to us insensitive humans when in the shade of these great trees it has a healing ability to the mind slowing the pace we exist at and above all giving us perspective !.
This painting has been modeled on three trees , some where deep in The Zambezi valley , hidden away in the jesse , they have been meeting place for the great grey Giants for centuries .Set in the hazy afternoon sun ,elephant dung- scattered around the trees creating an atmosphere of its own .The aroma of the dust and sweat creates an ambiance so typically Africa!
These are the spirits of the valley !
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$ 70-17,896
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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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