Helen Moir the artist and art teacher
MBABANE- For the of art! love
If you are a lover of art, you will be treated to a collection of art pieces today.
Helen Moir will be exhibiting her exquisite and life-changing art at the Mountain Inn Hotel at 5:30pm. Moir has been working for over a period of 30 years and has invited the British High Commissioner, Simon Boyden, to open the event.
Citizen
The author and artist is originally from Manchester, but she has been a citizen of Eswatini for 50 years now.
Moir will be expressing a retrospective small selection of paintings and collages that she has been
Painting titled ‘Fragile Balance’.
working on throughout the years, which consist of landscapes and
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In this collection she is promoting correctly, so that waste can be separated, sorted and sent for recycling quicker and more efficiently.
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climate change and wants to create awareness of the environment, the damage humanity has done to it and future repercussions thereof. She incorporates waist material and litter in her paintings to further drive her point.
Passion
Reiterating her passion for climate change she said: “I have recently been concerned with issues relating to climate change and how humanity is destroying the planet.”
Moir started painting when she was just six years old, she went on to study Art and Design at Manchester Regional College of Art.
When she left school, she went on to teaching art in schools, worked as a designer then would paint in her spare time.
It was only in 1990 that she began to study for her Honours degree in Fine Arts and the History of Art and started painting in oils.