Burkinabe Gold

A second version of this painting, inspired by travels around the temporary mining camps in West Africa's Burkina Faso. Miners live in their shacks, dig up earth, break it up, add water and pour the diluted mixture on the slopes - the felts catch the heavier fragments - and gold is what they hope will be among the "catch"

Burkinabe Gold

A second version of this painting, inspired by travels around the temporary mining camps in West Africa's Burkina Faso. Miners live in their shacks, dig up earth, break it up, add water and pour the diluted mixture on the slopes - the felts catch the heavier fragments - and gold is what they hope will be among the "catch"