Thomas moved to Zimbabwe in 1946 to become a tobacco farmer and chrome miner. He founded Tengenge Art Community in 1966 after the economic sanctions on Zimbabwe. He founded the art centre in order to give himself and his farm workers a more meaningful life and a way of earning an income
Thomas Blomefield
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