Grizelda was born in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) to very politically liberal parents; and in 1972 went to study painting at Bristol and then at Central School of Art & Design in London. She works with pastel, saying “I have spent most of my life drawing with dust on paper - the most fleeting of things! When everything is turned back into the soil 15 miles down and only star-song left, my pictures will have been long long gone. I love that.

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​I love pastels because they are what the first people drew with on the rocks : mud and blood and charcoal. They are dust of the purest pigments, held together with a little glue. They are matt, absorbing whatever light they are in and changing with it. And they are immediate.