Year 2022 offered me a breakthrough: Mutonho

MULTI-AWARD-WINNING artist Blessing Tafadzwa Mutonho,  who hails from Dangamvura, Mutare, believes the year 2022 was his turning point after he picked several awards and exhibited widely.

Mutonho — famed for his unrelenting support for wildlife conservation, the love for education, social ills correction and commentary on issues such as gender-based violence, drug abuse and child marriages — told NewsDay Life & Style that he retraces his passion for drawing to way back before he could correctly write his name.

Mutonho, who bagged the Best Exhibitor for Year 2022 at the Manicaland Agricultural Show through his master potrait designs, recalls that his life-changing drawing tips came from a friend and artist called Christwish Mulunga who advised him to enter competitions such as Manisa, Minimanisa, Tavotose, Morgan and Company, Manicaland Agricultural Show and many others where he came out tops.

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