Herero Women Namibia Metal Print

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Two Herero women meet outside their village of Omaruru. Both are wearing traditional dress because their sons have recently married. It is spring and the grass is burnt dry and the thorn trees are bare of leaves. Birds fly above and in the mid-distance is a small mountain with slopes warmly lit by the morning sun.

I paint in oil and watercolour and my sites are http://elinor-fletcher.artistwebsites.com and elinor-fletcher.pixels.com so contact me at elinor.ivy.fletcher@gmail.com or ring me on INT 027 021 762 9735 landline or 0729578101 cell. I was born in 1941 in the Orkney Islands north of Scotland where my father was stationed in the air force. My mother was an artist and I spent my childhood years in North Wales with my maternal grandmother until the war was over when I was reunited with my mother in London. In my twenties I studied painting at the Heatherley School in Pimlico, London, with Helen Wilson, Carl Cheek and David Ufland. I have had solo and mixed exhibitions since in London and Europe and Cape Town and my pictures are in...