Inspired by her grandmother’s basket weaving, Mercy Moyo began to draw as a very young person and used her drawings to describe the world around her and tell the story of life in contemporary Africa. Her images are primarily collages, incorporating objects, which complement and reinforce the images depicted. She uses oil, acrylics, charcoal, smoke from candles and pencils to create vibrant images of contemporary women in Zimbabwe today. She often integrates newsprint in her paintings. One of her goals is to use her art to showcase the beauty of African women be they from the village or the capital city of Harare, portraying the real African woman – in her long skirts, fuller figure, with her head nicely covered abiding by the norms and rules of the typical African way of life.