Helen Lieros & Derek Huggins

In their article “Zimbabwe Contemporary Painting: 1970 to 2018”, which appears in MOCCA
FIVE BHOBH: PAINTING AT THE END OF AN ERA, they write: The painters of the day whom Frank McEwen recognized were Thomas Maybank, Trevor
Southey, Tony Wales-Smith, Josephine O’Farrell, Kingsley Sambo, Robert Paul, and Marshall
Baron, amongst others. Kingsley Sambo is remembered for his depictions of day and night life in
the townships; Robert Paul for his atmospheric landscapes of Inyanga in the Eastern Highlands
of Zimbabwe as well as his depictions of the capital’s historic buildings; and Marshall Baron for
his huge, organic, and spacious abstract expressionist works, which he painted with the
accompaniment of orchestral music. The latter, of Bulawayo, was before his time, and was
ridiculed by the conservative art-going public, but he influenced and inspired Stephen Williams
and Rashid Jogee, two young painters.