Umcebo Design

Creative Director of Umcebo Design- Fusing local art and craft skills, with high end, and contemporary design. (Durban- South Africa).

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As is the way of my people- when we are tempted to fight on Facebook- we instead pimp chandeliers, eat nice food and breath deeply 😉

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Planning a series of interactive murals with a local school in 2022. An initial piece with angel wings and a decorative border- which the students, educators and community can photograph themselves with. After that, a series of ten others with blackboard spaces to write in.

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PLEASE BOYCOTT SHELL UNTRACITIES AND GAS STATIONS TO PROTEST THEIR PLANNED OIL EXPLORATION ON THE WILD COAST.

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This is truly the best time of the year 🙏

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When you cannot squeeze in one more dot- you know it’s finally done ;)

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So nice to see the wind chime we made for client Tammy Hogendoorn hanging in her amazing midnight phantasy garden, which she has created at her beautiful Kloof home. Happy to see our work so beautifully displayed and enjoyed 🙏

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So pleased to see me included in the initial layouts for the book for the Octopus Movements Project 398. Thanks Perry Knoppert- appreciate being included and look forward to working together. Thanks Mike McFadyean for helping me
prepare and submit my work 🙏

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Thanks Sue Granger for buying my first painted kitty and a doorstop. Making and painting more this week 🙏

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Went shopping for spices and saw this advert. Had to chuckle ;)

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Picking wild greens and plane spotting in Verulam and then good food and all the new flowers in Reservoir Hills. Life is very good 🙏

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@cmh_hills Having fun with leftovers and really appreciate your comment 🙏

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Painting up a storm on The Studio Wall, door stoppers and a cat for the garden :)

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A visit to Reservoir Hills to see the marigolds, eat some veg curry and samosas and then home to try capture that colour and energy on some fun door stoppers 🙏

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Love the clouds in Toti- I could see a seahorse in this one :)

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What’s there not to like about the weekend ?

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Yesterday had the pleasure of helping (three Final Year Fine Art Students from DUT): Tema Ndzimandze; Andile Zulu and Lindiwe Mbambalala - with an interview with us and Lyn McIlvaney (a Community Volunteer). The students needed the information for their CSR assignment.

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This morning, picking fresh garden herbs in Verulam- Life is very good ;)

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Beautiful blue skies so we paint blue and green door stoppers and we make a chandelier. Please keep all your wine corks for me- need a lot for this chandelier 🙏

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Yesterday we also handed over the completed leopard we have been working on with Robyn Schlemmer and her Tech Students at Clifton- as part of their Big 5 Collection 🙏

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Today, working with Facilities Crew at Clifton we installed the Clifton Badge, made from acrylics, wood and recycled plastic. 35 litres of glue later it’s up and sparkling and we are so proud of the work we did with Wendy Meyer, Karlien Erasmus and their art students. 🙏