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ALL ABOUT
ART

I am a self-taught artist, and my first Renoir, Degas, Monet – “Mo Nique”. This
Mo Nique painting was a portrait of Mandela. As I proud moment, my first signing, will
looked at this painting, I realised my talent. forever stay with me.
I felt rediscovered, and I was so excited! I After this I started working on some
draw my inspiration from life and the knew this was it. I have officially found my landscapes of the Italian winelands,
energy surrounding it. People close to calling, after struggling to make ends meet female figures, nudes, ballerinas and
I e inspire me, the African skies light as a single mother to three children. Art flowers to try and determine my style.
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up my heart, the colours of nature talk to chose me, I did not choose art. I very soon started painting my flower
me and flowers excite me. Through all of I decided to sign my portrait with “Mo paintings and they were becoming
this, I draw my motivation to paint. Nique” as it has a ring to it, sounds like more and more popular, and most of
my bouquet paintings sold as I finished
them. It was as though the flowers were
inside of me, it came with such ease to
paint them. I would literally paint them
from my imagination: sunflowers, lilies,
lysianthus, irises. They all just came to
me and I felt so blessed to be able to paint
them.
The colours for roses are very symbolic:
red roses symbolise love and romance. PINK
(my favourite) is gratitude, admiration and
joy. Orange roses symbolise enthusiasm and
passion. White roses symbolise purity and
holiness. So put all of those in together then
you pretty much have a very exciting and
powerful painting!

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