By BARBARA HOLLANDS
It would take hours to absorb the paintings, sculptures, book collections and other fascinating artefacts in Dick Latimer’s vibrant Nahoon Mouth home.
The house he shares with wife Leila – herself a creator of watercolours, quilts and pottery – is an external embodiment of his extraordinary approach to art, because for Latimer, 69, beauty is found in detail.
In Hardly A Road, Latimer tells the real story of a Land Rover journey he took into Swaziland, Mozambique, Rhodesia and Botswana in the 1970s with his late first wife Marge.
The zealous creator has four books on the boil and works on them seven days a week. Two of these – Anna and the Birds and The Impossible Garden – are for children and contain his magical illustrations, another explores his fascination with cave art, while the fourth is a collage book based on Darwin’s Diaries.
“I lapse into sculpture and pottery, but I think I have as many books in me for as long as I am alive.” — barbarah@dispatch.co.za
Born to write and bring books to explosive life
It would take hours to absorb the paintings, sculptures, book collections and other fascinating artefacts in Dick Latimer’s vibrant Nahoon Mouth home.
The house he shares with wife Leila – herself a creator of watercolours, quilts and pottery – is an external embodiment of his extraordinary approach to art, because for Latimer, 69, beauty is found in detail.
In Hardly A Road, Latimer tells the real story of a Land Rover journey he took into Swaziland, Mozambique, Rhodesia and Botswana in the 1970s with his late first wife Marge.
The zealous creator has four books on the boil and works on them seven days a week. Two of these – Anna and the Birds and The Impossible Garden – are for children and contain his magical illustrations, another explores his fascination with cave art, while the fourth is a collage book based on Darwin’s Diaries.
“I lapse into sculpture and pottery, but I think I have as many books in me for as long as I am alive.” — barbarah@dispatch.co.za
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