See the Valley of a 1 000 Hills through Nomsa’s art
Nomsa Ngidi's work will be displayed at an art exhibition at Woza Moya Embocraft in the month of March.
FOR the month of March, Woza Moya Embocraft, Bothas Hill celebrates artist, Nomsa Ngidi, with an art exhibition displaying her beautiful paintings.
Nomsa grew up in the Valley of a 1 000 Hills in the village called KwaMnamatha. She attended a rural school where art was not taught and in 1993 started to work at an art gallery and developed an interest in art.
She was inspired by the different paintings she saw and in 2004, started collecting off-cuts of mount board and invested in a little bit of paint and began painting on Sundays.
Liz Bear saw her work and loved it and asked her to get some formal art lessons. She trained with Maggie Strachan and Pascal Chandler in 2013.
In 2006, Nomsa got the second prize in the The KwaZulu-Natal Society of the Arts (KZNSA) member’s exhibition. She also exhibited at the Margate Museum, at the Durban art gallery in the women’s day exhibition.
In 2008 she was selected as a finalist for the Nivea Art Award and in 2009 received second prize in the KZNSA members exhibition and was also represented at a group exhibition at Art Space Berlin, Carnage Art Gallery in Newcastle, 2015 Sanlam portrait award and Trailing the Trappists in Mariannhilll in 2017.
Craft co-ordinator at Woza Moya, Paula Thomson said, “Woza Moya is very proud and honoured to be hosting Nomsa at the Woza Embocraft Gallery. Nomsa’s work has a naïve purity that is mesmerising. She is a modern day Irma Stern.”
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According to Thomson, all the paintings resonate with something in one’s soul, perhaps it is her honesty of vision. Her colour is subtle, and although I personally prefer her landscapes, the people paintings when you really look have a purity of vision.
“It is always wonderful to experience an artist’s vision and to get the opportunity to see all Nomsa’s paintings together is a real treat,” she said.
Nomsa sells her work through various galleries in South Africa and abroad; the Tamasa gallery, African ART Centre, KZNSA Gallery, Art Space Durban and in JHB @ Cherrie De Villiers Gallery, the Irma Stern Museum in Cape Town and private Collectors, Artspace Berlin and Canada.
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