As a result of their involvement in their church’s AIDS Ministry, and travels back to Africa over the past several years,

Constance and Douglas Cole formed Ansellia Gallery and Selerera Productions to document and share

a  positive focus on the art, beauty, fragility and strength of the human condition

which continually remind them that we are all stewards of this earth. 

Ansellia (African Leopard Orchid).  Pronunciation: An-sell-i-ah (English);  Im-fey-en-ka-wu (Zulu). 

A stunning yellow, sometimes green-ish, sometimes orange-ish colored orchid with leopard-like spots. 

This very fragrant orchid  has been encountered throughout tropical Africa

in Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Namibia, Nigeria,  South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Sekerera means “Smile” in Shona.  Shona is one of the two prevalent indigenous languages spoken

in Zimbabwe, formerly Southern Rhodesia. 

Sekerera  was taken from a poem written  for the children

who are and have been cared for by the Mother of Peace Community  in Mutoko, Zimbabwe.   

The title of the Poem is Runyarara Kwauri which means “Peace for You”.

This body of work represent our commitment to wards sharing some of the things that help us  to

feel joy in our hearts ...things that may also make us  smile, laugh and cry.

Muari  Akukomborere

“God Bless You”