Mongezi Ncaphayi is an artist who tells his life story through his abstract works. An abstraction that represents your personal history, your place of birth in South Africa, Benoni in East Gauteng, the mining region where his father worked. Mongezi draws maps like intricate webs on stone, uses his homeland as a source of inspiration and draws on the calm of the Limousin countryside during their stays at Atelier Le Grand Village. His lithographs and abstract shapes borrow their curves and lines from jazz music and migratory movements of the South African workforce. Of all his work great lyricism and poetry emerges; a gentle and calming energy that is noticeable at first sight.

His works are part of the collections of the South African National Gallery of the the Bibliothèque nationale de France (the national collection of prints), of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Mastercard, Southern New Hampshire University, U.S.A., by Jack Ginsberg, by The Ampersand Foundation and others.