2 Master Pieces and a Magazine Review ... What a Month.


Magazine :
Woman & Home
Date : January 2006
Review Title : From the African Backyard into the Global market

 

Two women who are taking SA art to new heights talk to Marjorie Copeland about their creative vision and how their pieces are being sold in Harrods and given as gifts by our head of state.

Fée Halsted-Berning and Jane Bedford both began small home businesses that have exploded internationally. Their vision, plus the talent of local crafts people, has created collectors' items and potential museum pieces, as well as opening the purse strings of some of the worlds most sophisticated buyers. It is also changing lives and empowering local communities in which people were previously umemployed.

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News Flash : We have just released two masterpieces at the Lavendula Studio.

 

Sculpted by : Petros
Dimensions : 30 cms H / 22 cms W
Price : on request

Available for viewing at the Lavendula Studio

 

 

 

 

Sculpted by : Sondelani
Dimensions : 65 cms H / 45 cms W
Price : on request

Available for viewing at the Lavendula Studio

 

 

 


Talent Focus - Petros Gumbi : Petros's superb sculpting ability is described by Fèe Halsted-Berning as surpassing even that of Ardmore's legendary Bonnie Ntshalintshali.His amazing creations, which often included human figures, have been exhibited all over the world.He has travelled with them to Kuala Lumpur and London where ha participated in the Christies's exhibition in January 2003 and 2004.His ‘John Dunn' historical sculpture was exhibited the K.I.T. Trompen Museum in Amsterdam and he was invited to participate with South Africa's leading ceramicists in the prestigious Earthworks Claybodies exhibition in Stellenbosch.

More about Petros | Other Artists & Sculptors

 


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The system is independant of any influence from Ardmore and is a service that if provided free of charge as an exchange medium for our art collectors.