People, Landscapes, Abstract & Structures - Black & White & Some With A Dab of Colour
More drawings & Sketches can be seen in the Opus Series....From Sketch to Painting
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If an Original work is SOLD, prints are available as unsigned and in a Limited Edition of 5 signed prints
The Iconic Hut of Africa Appears in Much of Rodney's Work - Click "The Hut" for more about it.
To see more sketches & how they are used to create a painting, click on an OPUS Page - Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4
Huts represent something greater than a mere "round structure with walls of clay or wood, a peaked grass roof with a central support pole".
They were easier to build from a circular foundation with cheap readily available raw materials: mud, clay and tree branches.
But the logic was not just in the architecture; it was mostly in the communalism and complimentary nature of society as described by Alex Taremwa in a 2016 article:
Click to go to the Article "Wisdom from an African Hut"
"In most, if not all indigenous cultures, social gatherings and councils took place in circles around a focal point. Usually a warm fire. Within the hut, families would sit and eat together in the same way, tell stories in their circles, excluding no one. They would sit , eat together. I believe Westerners can learn a lot from this system if they tried it".