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    The San people left a priceless and unique artistic inheritance and South Africa houses the largest collection of Stone Age paintings and engravings in the world. Today South Africa is also the scene of a host of vibrant and challenging contemporary artists producing new and important work.

    SOUTH AFRICA PHOTO GALLERIES

    Take a quick photo tour of South Africa's Arts and Crafts. (South Africa. Info)

    SOUTH AFRICA PHOTO GALLERIES

    Take a quick photo tour of SA's wealth of rock art. (South Africa. Info)


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    The Owl House

    Helen Martins lay ill in bed one night, with the moon shining in through the window, and considered how dull and grey her life had become. She resolved, there she would strive to bring light and colour into her life. That simple decision, to embellish her environment, was to grow into an obsessive urge to express her deepest feelings, her dreams and her desires. more