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Here is  Fraser Paterson: Sculptor  that makes sculpture, scenic paint for the film, television and display industry.

Art Creations Africa has grown to become one of Africa's largest exporters of African Shona stone sculpture over the past 19 years. Promoting first, second, third generation, young and up coming stone sculptors from Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Mozambique, work on or near the Great Dyke from which the beautiful fine grained stone boulders are removed. The stones are known as springstone, opaline, verdite, serpentine and other amazing beautifully coloured stones. Art Creations Africa buys all their stone sculptures from sculptors sculpting in Zimbabwe. The majority of the sculptors are Zimbabwean. All Art Creation Africa's Zimbabwean sculptures are displayed on the Internet and many can be viewed at various exhibitions through out the world. Art Creations Africa holding art gallery is situated in Somerset West, Western Cape, near Cape Town, South Africa. The primary objectives of  Art Creations Africa  are to expose, offer, educate, inform art collectors and prospective art lovers on the history and background of the now famous and world acclaimed hand carved beautiful hard stone sculptures from Zimbabwe. Maximises the sale and marketing of these beautiful stone sculpture to the tourist industry, international art markets, art collectors through local and international exhibitions through our informative and educational website. The art movement was known as "Shona Sculpture" in the beginning; however, it has matured into an art movement where sculptors from many countries are now working in Zimbabwe. The sculptures may follow many themes or forms; the themes can be African, realistic, metamorphic or spiritual. The new generation of artists' sculptures are mainly abstract and realistic. It should be remembered that sculpting in this manner means this form of art is the only movement left in the world where stone sculpture is created using only a hammer and chisel. International and local exhibitions are regularly held at which at least 30 African stone sculptures are exhibited. These exhibitions can be found in leading 5 star hotels, guesthouses, wine estates and art galleries. Art Creations Africa supports all of the sculptors working in and around Zimbabwe, whether they are Zimbabwean or from a neighboring country, through the sales and marketing of stone sculptures, using our network of exhibitions and the Internet. Art Creations Africa's primary objective is to improve the lives and living standards of the sculptors and their immediate families, even extended family. To see that which untrained, untaught sculptors achieve using only a piece of rough stone extracted from the great dyke, using only a hammer, chisel and a file ending up creating a masterpiece, through the use of ancient forgotten techniques, owners of a stone sculpture from Zimbabwe are the richer with either a stone abstract or torso or a creation of their mind in their procession to mention but a few.




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