Bokani Portfolio & Bio

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PAINTER AND DIGITAL ARTIST

BOKANI

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Original Paintings

56 Magnificat

May you have the courage to listen

19 W x 24 H x 1 D cm

to the voice of desire

19 W x 24 H x 1 D cm

21 W x 29 H x 1 D cm

Acrylic Paints on Canvas

Acrylic Paints on Canvas £895

Acrylic Paints on Canvas

Emerald

£697

£795

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Moment of Lift I

Spring Meadow

Flights in Water

30cm x 20cm 12"x8"

30cm x 20cm 12"x8"

30cm x 20cm 12"x8"

Acrylic Paints on Card Board £995

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Acrylic Paints on Canvas Board £735

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Original Paintings

56 Midnight Irises

Lifted up

61cm x 46cm

102cm x 76cm

Acrylic on canvas board

Acrylic Paints on Canvas

£1,895 (Framed)

£1,895 (Framed)

Floral burst 30cm x 20cm x 0.5cm Acrylic Paints on Card Board £975 (UnFramed)

Oceanic blooms

Joy as resistance

Acrylic paint on stretched canvas

40cm x 30cm x 0.5cm

150cm x 120cm x 1cm

Acrylic Paints on Canvas

£3,375 (Framed)

£1,275 (Framed)

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Archival quality, custom-sized, prints

Waves 1

Heaven in a Wild Flower

Midnight Irises

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

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Light Aquatic

The Blue Danube

The Blue Danube

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

60cm x 80cm x 4cm, 24"x 31" x 2"

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Lightbox from £1,975

Take me to the water

Eau my soul

Aquatic Light

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

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Archival quality, custom-sized, prints

Fluorescence

In flower

The Kiss

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

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from £175

from £175

Spring Meadow

Oceanic Lillies I & II

Flowers in Eden

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

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Lilac fields

Hibiscus

Birdbill Dayflower

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

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Drawings available as archival quality, custom-sized, prints

Ngiyazi

Ngim'hle yazi

Nqoba

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

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from £165

from £165

Pay & Protect

Promote

Yala

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

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Zwana

Ngikhona

Amandla

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

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Archival quality, custom-sized, prints

Violets

Betta

Oceanic Lillie 1

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

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Spring Meadow

Spring Meadow

Aquatic flora

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

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Floral flames

Glacial melt

Untitled

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

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Untitled

The kiss

Untitled

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

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Untitled

Untitled

Untitled

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

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Untitled

Untitled

Untitled

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from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

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Original Circle Paintings

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Celestial waves from 40 W x 40 H x 0.5 D cm Acrylic Paints on Card Board from £923

Gamma Cru from 40 W x 40 H x 0.5 D cm Acrylic Paints on Card Board NFS

56

Marine Reflection II

Spring Meadow

Sun on sea

from 40 W x 40 H x 0.5 D cm

from 20 W x 20 H x 0.5 D cm

from 30 W x 30 H x 0.5 D cm

Acrylic Paints on Card Board

Acrylic Paints on Card Board

Acrylic Paints on Card Board

from £1,275

from £875

from £1,475

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Archival quality, custom-sized, prints 01

Celestial desert

Alpha Aquarii

Constellation

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30cm x 30cm

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

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Orion Nebula

Continental Drift

Bulbul feathers

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

from 30.4cm x 25.4cm, 12"x 10"

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Marine Reflection I

Celestial well

from 20 W x 20 H x 0.5 D cm

from 20 W x 20 H x 0.5 D cm

from 20 W x 20 H x 0.5 D cm

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Marine Reflection II

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Stain Glass Mirror Paintings

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Each others' keepers 30 x 30 cm Mixed media from £850

Paradiso 120 x 60 cm Mixed media

Paradiso 120 x 60 cm Mixed media from £1,275

from £1,275

We are each others' keepers 30 x 30 cm Mixed media from £2,075

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See me with compassionate

A window of the soul

Towards transcendent fullness

eyes, love with generosity

24 x 24 cm

40 x 40 cm

20 x 20 cm

Mixed media

Mixed media

Mixed media

£850

from £975

£650

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‘My dancing abstract paintings have beats, rhythms and patterns which resonate with hope, joy and strength.’ Bokani’s technique involves urgent, gestural movements, exploring and responding to colours as they interact on the canvas. She believes in the integrity, freedom and honesty of abstract painting. Bokani has developed a method over several years of creating rational patterns that lead the viewers’ eye across the paintings, reminiscent of the dancing African printed cloths of her childhood. Bokani’s work is characterised by spontaneous, vibrant colour, fuelled by an exploration of themes and motifs engaging the viewer intellectually, emotionally and spiritually. Painting has empowered her to move past the childhood loss of both parents to resolve questions of global female identity, black African heritage and belonging. Bokani’s resilient, triumphant and optimistic attitude is conveyed by the powerful and vivid use of colour, structure and texture. Chiefly concerned with our response to the climate crisis, her paintings elicit a new response to nature. Bokani draws on Laudato Si, published in 2015, using a printing technique which carries over paint in patterns of relation to illustrate the idea of integral ecology. The details of the paintings are evocative of natural patterns, colours and textures, creating a visual poem to the concept of integral ecology which describes our patterns of connection to all life. This tension between creative abandon, emotional expression and technical discipline elicit dynamic responses, creating works that are an on-going conversation between the artist and the viewer. Her digital works are infused with her colourful aesthetic and spiritual conversation, engaging with the powerful technology influences of our time; machine learning, computer visioning and artificial intelligence. Bokani Tshidzu was born in Zimbabwe and moved to England as a teenager. Her work is blending an African sensibility with the traditions of conceptual western art. She studied Politics with Economics (2009) at the University of Bath, as well as a Masters in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London (2021) specialising in Computational Art. The key theme of her digital practice is journey, creating a narrative that takes viewers on an immersive experience. She was co-founder of a sustainability software firm for six years and has worked in finance and politics. Following a spiritual journey on foot across the north of Spain, on the Ignatian Camino, Bokani made the commitment to working as an artist. She was discovered by BBC 1 for the show ‘The Big Painting Challenge’, and won the public vote in the first week. She is living and working in Bow, in London’s East End. Her work has been exhibited across the UK and in Paris.

Education ​Goldsmiths College, University of London Computational Art, Masters in Fine Art - 2021 University of Bath Politics with Economics Bsc - 2009 Exhibitions Seeing the Extraordinary, Battersea, 2021 Some of us are brave II , Stratford Library, 2021 The New Hues Of Blackness, MYO Victoria, 2021 Kaleidoscope: A Celebration of Colour, Drian Gallery 2021 Shivers, MA Degree Show, Goldsmiths College, 2021 Advent 2020, St Paul's Hammersmith, 2020 Art for Air, Old Bank Vault (UK), 2019 Blessed Art Thou Amongst Women, Mount St Jesuit Centre (UK), 2019 getLerped, Goldsmiths College (UK), 2018 Renaissance, Espace7(France), 2018 Chapter Ten, Library Members Club (UK), 2018 Still Life, Glasgow Distillery (Scotland), 2017 Still Life, House for an Art Lover, (Scotland), 2017 Landscape, Westonbirt Arboretum (UK), 2017 Expression (solo), Library Members Club ( UK) , 2015 Press

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