Indigo Fields Gallery and Coffee Cafe

The Fine Art Gallery and Coffee Sop at Indigo Fields are intertwined with beautiful works of art.

The coffee cafe is delightful and should the weather allow, a "cuppa" and "munchy" taken on the deck over looking the Indigo Fields farm, taste so much better in the clean air of the Midlands...

Indigo Fields hosts regular exhibitions, however the artists whose work can be viewed throughout the year include the following:

• Catherine Brennon - Catherine is influenced by many things: natural life form patterns, African sculpture and textiles, wilderness landscapes, music, the spiritual life. From the time of her initial training in ceramics (1977-79) she has endeavoured to connect with people through the medium of clay
• Lawrence Brennon - As a professional panoramic landscape photographer, I have been blessed beyond measure in witnessing and being able to capture just a little of the awesome beauty, which characterizes the southern tip of Africa.
• Astrid Dahl - Astrid enjoys the whiteness and silky smoothness of earthern wear clay. She has experimented with classical, African and abstract forms and used powder, paint, wax, bronze and earthern clay an is inspired by everything from music to performance art to film festivals
• Llewellen Davies - born in Zimbabwe in 1950 and was raised on an extensive cattle ranch bordering on Hwange Game Reserve. His being a solitary childhood, Llewellyn spent many hours modelling simple figures out of a heap of clay - showing, even then, a remarkable eye for proportion and form and uncanny ability to record details about his chosen subject matter
• Barry Downard - inspired by the story-telling possibilities of digitally manipulating his photographs, and developed a style of photo-illustration. His technique consists of taking lots of photographs, throwing them into a photo-snaffling machine, stirring it up, and sticking it all together with computer glue. He combines a love of detail, with a fascination for non-verbal communication
• Josephine Ghesa - With an aptitude for sculpture, she coils her forms using a terracotta body. These are fired to 1200 degrees before being finished in a variety of media, from oil paint to boot polish. Combining animal and human forms, her work blends the legends of her Sotho childhood with a highly personalised mythology.
• Peter Hall - has been a a major pressence in South African art galleries for seventeen years. Starting out as a water-colourist, being represented by leading galleries and sought after for teaching courses and demonstrations. He evolved from there, experimenting with mixed meda and oils, constantly drawing on his foundation experience as a water colourist to create the light and vibrant colour that has become his trademark.
• Gabi Nkosi - Her first solo exhibition was held in 1999 in the Durham Art Gallery, England. She has partaken in many exhibitions and has her work on show across the world. Gabi has also received numerous awards, receiving her first in 1991.Gabi currently works at Caversham for Artists and writers as the Programme Manager.
• Russel Papworth - Russel has a background in airbrush painting and screen printing. In 1995, he moved to Nottingham Road and acquired The Hobbit's Hut made it what it is today. It was here that he discovered his passion and talent for sculpture. He started with clay and then moved on to wax. In 1998 Russel discovered the joy of bronze sculpture. His first piece was a Dragon commissioned by an art collector.
• Graham Quinn - his focus is primarily to wildlife sculpture in bronze. He has enjoyed various endeavours in the medium- completing two large-scale commissions: a 3X life-size martial eagle for Bechman Brothers in Port Shepstone, and a life-size nyala for Marriot Properties
• Patrick Reynolds - a self-taught sculptor who specialises in the human figure and in wild life.
• Lousie van Niekerk -  produces a wide range of ceramics, from earthenware and stoneware to Raku and smoke fired ceramics
• Andrew Walford - one of the few potters who digs his own stoneware clay and meticulously prepares it to his own high standard. Working in the Japanese tradition with thick chun glazes sifted by hand from wood ash, colours of rich resonant tenmokus, fatty whites and shades of celadon, he then decorates the pots with specially imported Japanese brushes
• David Walters - one of South Africa's most distinguished potters, was also the founder and driving force behind its first craft route, the Midlands Meander in Natal. David's hand-thrown porcelain is smoke-fired, a technique also known as pit-firing. When vessels are subjected to the randomness of the open fire, mysterious black shadows and velvety stains emerge, evoking dark secrets, animal skins, cloud shadows. David's works are evocative of early Greek or Roman pots, certainly also of pre-Columbian artefacts. Like crucibles burnished in gold, platinum or copper, they glow with a strange and inviting inner light...
• Musa E Zulu - The Language of Me is a book that does full justice to its author's impressive diversity of talents. With its inspiring narrative and 'personal scrapbook' selection of sketches, poems and private reflections, it offers a frank and intimate portrait of life from a wheelchair perspective. This is the story of his battle not to overcome, but to fully embrace his disability, to look for the meaning in the tragedy and use its changes positively in service of a wider cause.
• Huck Orban
• Zoe Mair
• Stephen Pryke