ARABELLA CACCIA, Summer Flora (Blue), Zimbabwe, 2023
Embroidery on hand woven silk, 120 x 125 cm
Arabella Caccia draws inspiration for her work from the people, places and objects around her.
From the light where she lives and the wilderness where she goes to find peace and silence.
The feeling of quiet and perhaps stillness in the work reflects the ambience she creates around
her, in order to find inspiration and access her creativity.
‘I firmly believe that the energy and focus put into making a work, a deep meditative
concentration,produces work of honesty and integrity, with a powerful energy. It is the process
which is of utmost importance.’
The embroidery works presented in this exhibition are inspired by in the incredible landscapes
Caccia saw on a recent road trip across Southern Africa, which included the sand dunes in
Namibia, the Okavango Delta in Botswana, the Chilojo cliffs in Gonarezhou in Zimbabwe, the
plains of Zambia, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Malawi and Mozambique.