Pepita Namara Biraaro
Pepita is a visual artist and is currently the CEO of PBNC Art Co. She is a graduate from the University of Pretoria with a Bachelor's degree in Information Science majoring in Cybersecurity. With more than 7 years of Tech expertise she decided to merge Art and Technology to create her pieces. The use of technology in the structuring and planning of her ideas makes her work unique and breathtakingly beautiful. She uses various mediums to express her talents ranging from pen, pencil sketches to oil, and acrylic base painting. She is a sculptor, creator, designer of not only canvases but crafts too. She started her artistic journey at a young age of 6 years however started practicing art professionally in 2018. Since then she haz participated in various art exhibitions and won competitions both locally and internationally in her specialized field. She is a firm believer in increase business mandate to foster social and economic growth especially among the youth - women and low income communities.
My art is a way to go into myself.
It is a way to describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and your belief in some kind of beauty - describe all these with heartfelt, silent, humble sincerity and, when you express yourself, use the Things around you, the images from your dreams, and the objects that you remember.
If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is not poverty and no poor, indifferent place. And even if you found yourself in some prison, whose walls let in none of the world’s sounds – wouldn’t you still have your childhood, that jewel beyond all price, that treasure house of memories?
Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes by, far in the distance. - And if out of this turning-within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of asking anyone whether they are good or not. Nor will you try to interest magazines in these works: for you will see them as your dear natural possession, a piece of your life, a voice from it.