LEKGOA’S ABSTRACT TIME-LAPSE
Katso Boseatleng Lekgoa is a young artist with a passion for the art of drawing. The oldest of three children, Katso had never known that she had a great talent and gift for capturing faces, bodies, and her own imaginative creativity on a piece of paper. It was until art was forced on her at Junior secondary school as a subject. She took it as a challenge and got a hold of it.
Lekgoa had a tough time in her initial classes of art, especially with teachers in junior school but when she got her mind into the art she started to fall in love with it. She recalls a few lessons very vividly saying that the teacher throw jabs at their backs whenever he saw an error in any of their works in class. “Now that I think about it, he saw my potential, always had and that was his way of being supportive and I guess he was very encouraging because well we’re here.” She said. All the works she made from those days made her find the most accurate, if not perfect , way of creating an artwork. This made her one of the most talented fine artists in the country.
Her artworks have won a few recognition awards mostly during her time in Senior secondary school even though she has no memory of the titles she was awarded for the art. Abstract drawings are her speciality and her artworks are mostly focused around that branch of drawing. Laced with a historic feel and aura, the artworks themselves attract the viewer’s attention and always have a story to tell. Yelling, screaming or even calmly conveying the mind and heart of the artist that put them to paper. Some of her most prominent pieces have been exhibited at Thapong Visual Arts in Gaborone Village.
Lekgoa stated that growing up with her grandmother, she had the opportunity to grow and learn about many topics and ideologies of life that have shaped how she views her artworks. She says she is very fond of her grandmother, citing how influential she is for mostly everything she does and the decisions she makes as an artist, a young lady and generally as a human being.
“I am working on getting a solo exhibition of my artworks. That’s what I have planned for the near future.” She said on the question regarding her plans for the future. Lekgoa spends other parts of her time at home with her family, or out with friends when she has the funds to do so. The bulk of her time though, now that she is finished with school, is and will be spent working on the pieces she is going to pit up at her solo exhibition that she is working towards.
Outside of the fine arts, Katso is intrigued by the world that is of the performing arts. Not that she has a burning interest like most of the people, whose mostly poetic recitals she enjoys listening to, she would venture into the world of poetry. “I have surrounded myself with creative in all fields of creative arts so I don’t think I can or will run out of inspiration.” She said when describing her social circle.
The heart of an art piece is a part of the essence of the artist who puts pen or pencil or paint on a piece of canvas or paper. The masterpiece is achieved only by sharing a piece of oneself with the artwork. Katso Boseatleng Lekgoa gives her artworks bits and pieces and sometimes chunks of herself to make them as beautiful, catchy and as creative as her mind is wild with creativity.
Odirile Odirile is a young author, writer and poet who is passionate about the arts of Africa, from stage theatre to the art of writing and everything in between. He is also a reviewer of written artworks by African writers in the online magazine "Writers Space Africa".
