The artist

Tonely Ngwenya

Zimbabwe

Tonely Ngwenya creates emotionally evocative works rooted in modern African culture, telling stories through rich texture and expressive form. His mastery of the palette knife gives his paintings a distinctive depth. Through his art he explores the human condition of the modern African: identity, grief, solace and spirituality. His work often portrays people navigating the challenges of traditional rural life, and whether his subjects are human or animal, he finds the hidden beauty in everyday life.

Born in 1976, Tonely trained at the B.A.T. School of Art at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, studying painting, graphics, drawing, design, sculpture, photography and dry-point printing. Painting became his chosen medium, and his palette knife builds the layers of texture that carry the emotion in his work.

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8 works