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Lock decorated her entire home: the floor, windows, walls and lamps; with an intricate daisy pattern. She focused on shells, using broken bits and pieces she found at the dump. Her range of exhibits includes paintings and embroidery
Lock built the exhibition hall herself over many years. The house has been converted into three galleries, the first of which contains sculptures made almost entirely from shells she collected on her holidays in Port St Johns on the Wild Coast. The second holds a series of intricate paintings that, on closer inspection, reveal that they too are made from shells.
The third gallery is a collection called Broken Things: these are items she found on rubbish dumps; plates, jugs and teapots, almost all of them broken and tossed out by their owners, which she embellished.
Lock lived in this house from the day she was born in 1906. She passed away in 1994. The collection belongs to her niece, who promised her aunt that she would always keep the collection together.
Elements in her work remind of Helen Martins’ Owl House in Nieu Bethesda.
