Harare — FORMER beneficiaries of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe artists in residence programme, Mercy Moyo and Mukudzei Muzondo, will hold a joint painting exhibition titled Raramo nePasi starting on June 21 at the gallery.

The paintings are a collage of art pieces that depict social challenges faced by women and the beauty found on natural objects from the environment.

Moyo's work revolves on figurative paintings capturing the social and physical aspects of African women and how they relate to the outside world.

Her paintings capture the daily routine activities expected of every woman and greatly expose their feelings at every given moment in time.

Different feelings and characters had been captured in her work as some of the paintings pick different facial expressions at different situations.

"I would like to point out the challenges that every woman is facing and highlight their dilemmas in life," said Moyo.

Notable piece to look forward to would be a caption of two women walking from a market place involved in dialogue while the background captures people engaged in their businesses titled Gossip in the Market.

Moyo tries to speak her mind with one interesting painting -- Zvirinani Ndigare Ndega -- where she captures a lonely seated mother with an ever-cogitating mind.

A glance at the portrait would give one a feeling of sympathy as the women looked depressed and remorse.

On the contrary, Mukudzei took a broad understanding of the environment by rearranging found objects from nature to produce beautiful abstract paintings.

He captures real life objects and presents them in a thought-provoking way through his classical paintings.

The paintings portray the beauty endowed in the environment and how they help in the well being of people.

Moyo is a product of the National Gallery's Visual Arts School and 2006 Nama award winner in the fine art two dimension category while Mukudzei is also a graduate from the same school and a participant in the 2007 Comesa arts exhibition.

Renowned artist Dominic Benhura is expected to officially open the exhibition, which is being funded by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in collaboration with the National Arts Gallery of Zimbabwe.