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One of many Western Cape’s best-loved backyard collections, at Vergelegen wine property in Somerset West, is additional enhanced with lovely, extremely detailed mosaic paintings that displays the botanical bounty of their environment.
Native Somerset West mosaic artist Romé Zurnamer has accomplished two works impressed by the colourful birds, crops, butterflies and bugs that abound on the 323-year-old property. She has now began work on a 3rd murals Vergelegen, a fourth mosaic can also be within the pipeline.
Romé created her first mosaic for Vergelegen in 2020, complementing a protracted, slim cistern within the Sundial Backyard close to Stables Restaurant and the Wine Tasting Centre. This space was replanted on the time and is wealthy in varieties comparable to lavender, daylilies, galadia, verbascum and pineapple sage.
The intricate, colourful mosaics generated such curiosity from guests that Romé was commissioned to embellish subsequent to a ingesting fountain within the East Backyard. This space is house to an intensive assortment of 15,000 blue, lilac, purple and white agapanthus flowers in 21 varieties, the colours and shapes of that are mirrored within the mosaic panels.
The panels have now been hooked up and the ingesting fountain has been put in.
Romé begins work on a bigger, extra colourful, eight-panel ingesting fountain close to the kids’s playground. It will mirror cosmos and agapanthus flowers and birds in a extra colourful palette.
Romé is a self-taught artist with no formal coaching, however has had a deep fascination with artwork for a few years. She explored a myriad of creative platforms starting from summary and positive artwork acrylic and oil work to indoor and out of doors murals earlier than deciding on mosaics.
“The water basin at Vergelegen was my first task for a backyard mosaic. It is in all probability probably the most particular challenge I’ve ever had. It has been an incredible alternative.
Romé works with giant plates of stained glass imported from Mexico, which she cuts out by hand and locations towards a background of reconstituted stone. This stone is barely thicker than the glass, making a three-dimensional impact. It additionally wraps across the sharp edges of the glass making it safer for the playground.
Romé’s different commissions embody painted murals for the evening shelters in Somerset West, as a part of their upliftment program, and mosaic college crests for Bishops, Somerset Home and St. Cyprian’s Prep Colleges as items for leavers.
Guests can view the mosaics at their leisure or ebook a heritage and backyard stroll.
This consists of the gardens, important bushes, the historic homestead and the library. Price R50/particular person, departs each day at 09:30 from the Wine Tasting Centre. E book 021 847 2122.
