Janet Mbirimi lives in Cape Town with her two daughters and husband. She grew up in the rural village Wedza (or Hwedza) in Zimbabwe. Wedza is in the province of Mashonaland East, located south of Harare.
Mbirimi works as a printer at the print studio, Warren Editions. Her exposure and intense involvement in printmaking at the print studio led her to explore her own ‘language’ in etchings, woodcuts and monotypes. Her childhood geographic landscape is inextricably linked to her landscape of memories.
Her etching Mtukwa is of the mountainous range in the province of Mashonaland East. In the summer months, as a child she will walk on the gravel road with her sister, Florence, to Mtukwa about two hours away from their home; there they will primarily pick plum sugar fruit – in Shona named ‘mazhanje’.

Villiersdorp
2020
Monotype on Zerkall Intaglio 250gsm
Paper dimensions: 38 x 53,5 cm
Unique Print
Price R5200 (excl. VAT)

Dombwe
2020
Monotype on Zerkall Intaglio 250gsm
Paper dimensions: 38 x 53,5 cm
Unique Print
Framed Price R6000 (excl. VAT) | Frame detail – Kiaat

Table Mountain (Lion’s Head)
2020
Monotype on Zerkall Intaglio 250gsm
Paper dimensions: 38 x 53,5 cm
Unique Print
Price R5200 (excl. VAT)

Nyanga Mountain (Ghost)
2019
Monotype on Zerkall Intaglio 250gsm
Paper dimensions: 38 x 53,5 cm
Unique Print
Price R5200 (excl. VAT)

Mutungagore (Ghost)
2019
Monotype on Zerkall Intaglio 250gsm
Paper dimensions: 38 x 53,5 cm
Unique Print
Price R5200 (excl. VAT)

Nyanga Mountain
2019
Monotype on Zerkall Intaglio 250gsm
Paper dimensions: 38 x 53,5 cm
Unique Print
Price R5200 (excl. VAT)

Chimanimani Mountain (Side View I)
2019
Monotype on Zerkall Intaglio 250gsm
Paper dimensions: 38 x 53,5 cm
Unique Print
Price R5200 (excl. VAT)

Chimanimani Mountain (Ghost)
2019
Monotype on Zerkall Intaglio 250gsm
Paper dimensions: 38 x 53,5 cm
Unique Print
Price R5200 (excl. VAT)

Chimanimani Mountain (Side View II)
2019
Monotype on Zerkall Intaglio 250gsm
Paper dimensions: 38 x 53,5 cm
Unique Print
Price R5200 (excl. VAT)

Chimanimani Mountain
2019
Monotype on Zerkall Intaglio 250gsm
Paper dimensions: 38 x 53,5 cm
Unique Print
Price R5200 (excl. VAT)

Mutungagore
2019
Monotype on Zerkall Intaglio 250gsm
Paper dimensions: 38 x 53,5 cm
Unique Print
Framed Price R6000 (excl. VAT) | Frame detail – Kiaat

Mtukwa
2018
Hardground etching on Zerkall Intaglio 250gsm
Edition of 10
Paper dimensions: 38 x 44 cm
Image dimensions: 22,6 x 29,6 cm
Price R2600 (excl. VAT)

Matopos Hills
2018
Hardground etching on Zerkall Intaglio 250gsm
Edition of 10
Paper dimensions: 38 x 44 cm
Image dimensions: 22,7 x 29,8 cm
Price R2600 (excl. VAT)

Nyamupara
2015
Hardground etching on Zerkall Intaglio 250gsm
Edition of 10
Paper dimensions: 25,3 x 26,6 cm
Image dimensions: 15,6 x 18,5 cm