Quentin and Stephen
on August 9, 2010
The art exhibition at the Sun resort has come to an end. Having run for two months we will miss seeing all those beautiful paintings and photographs displayed in our two hotels
Throughout the exhibition we have been changing the artwork and the artists. For the month of July we were pleased to show work by Stephen Robinson and Quentin Allen. Stephen and Quentin brought a lot of humor to the Royal Livingstone. They arrived late one afternoon after the long drive from Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. They quickly checked out the venue and then unpacked their car with all their work. There seemed to be canvases everywhere and Quentin still had one that needed to be stretched on its frame. A little bit of pandemonium ensued but nothing that we could not handle.
Stephen and Quentin are good friends, traveling to the wilderness areas of Zambia together whenever they can. Quentin paints and Stephen takes photographs. They have visited areas of Zambia where few people have been before. Quentin has a passion for waterfalls and has been known to walk for days to reach one so that he can paint it and record its details in his journal. Stephen has a state-of-the-art camera which takes panoramic photographs of wildlife and the environment; having chosen the ones he likes the best, he sends them to Switzerland to be printed on canvas.
On the day of their arrival I watched as each canvas was displayed in the exhibition hall. They were all so stunning and I wanted many of them myself. Having stapled his new canvas, called The Talking Tree, onto the frame, Quentin played the fool in front of my camera and pretended to staple Stephen. Getting serious once more they got down to the job of displaying their work and organizing the lighting. Quentin told me that it had been a long dusty drive and he was looking forward to a Mosi, one of Zambia’s local beers.
I left them to get on with their work and returned to my office. I don’t know what time they finished but I am sure that Quentin’s Mosi wasn’t drunk until well into the evening.
