Janet Mbirimi is a contemporary visual artist and printmaker who currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa, where she resides with her husband and two daughters. She grew up in the rural village of Wedza (Hwedza), located in the Mashonaland East province of Zimbabwe, just south of Harare. This formative upbringing in the Zimbabwean countryside deeply shaped her worldview and remains a foundational pillar of her creative identity.

Professionally, Mbirimi serves as an accomplished printer at the prestigious Cape Town print studio, Warren Editions. Her daily exposure and intense involvement in the rigorous, collaborative world of fine art printmaking naturally ignited a desire to cultivate her own creative voice. By mastering the technical demands of the studio, she successfully began exploring her own distinct artistic language through the mediums of etchings, woodcuts, and monotypes.

Mbirimi’s evocative artwork is profoundly conceptual, treating the physical topography of her childhood geographic landscape as something inextricably linked to her internal landscape of memories. Through the layered and tactile processes of printmaking, she translates nostalgic recollections, ancestral roots, and the passage of time into deeply textured visual narratives.