Zimbabwean Art Legacy Firmly Secure

The country's art legacy is truly secure in the custodianship of the current crop of the young and upcoming artists who never seize to amaze when it comes to creativity.

They have the nerve and conviction to uphold the international success and legendary excellence of executing the reputation that the country's modern art has been riding on long before donkeys lost their horns.

It has since continued to be a thread of inspiration invested in today's young master practitioners who undoubtedly are highly alert that dismounting is not an option.

The high recommendations that one hears from across continents where Zimbabwean artists have graced is incredible. In Zimbabwe art is very serious, it is survival, it is a career of choice that allows what is inside to rise to the surface and what is felt to be revealed.

Making a work of art should be something the artists want and are compelled to do, something which can be done in "that uncertain time before the morning" when blood sugar and the conscious mind are at their lowest ebb.

Their work will be used as a point of reference in the future to tell Zimbabwe’s story through the artists’ eyes. For years art has played an integral part in creating harmony and encouraging reflections on social identity.

That's the mind set of today's young generation of contemporary artists who are to jealously guard the legacy that has been left behind by their old masters.