A few months ago Rob (Nando's Brand Manager) had a great idea, “how about we ask our amazing artists that create masterpieces for our walls, create something unique to go on our menus themselves?”  So, that’s exactly what we’re doing!

Our artists probably aren’t ones whose work you’ll see in big fancy galleries. The work that Nando’s loves comes from our home country, South Africa, and hangs for all to see in every one of our restaurants.  Click here to see a variety of our wall art that displayed in our restaurants.

We have invited five of our favourite South Africa artists to visit us here in the UK for a Nando’s mini break. They’ll spend time seeing some of their work sitting proudly in our restaurants and meeting some of the amazing people who work at Nando’s. And of course there’ll even be a bit of time for some London sightseeing.

When they head back home the artists are going to use their time with us as inspiration to create truly unique pieces of art, which will feature on the March 2012 menu covers!

We’re going to keep you updated on how it’s coming along right here…

Meet the artists

Dion Cupido

Dion discovered his ability to paint, by accident, when he helped a friend with a school project. He started painting professionally from 2001 and has recently fallen in love with painting portraits when he discovered a new technique of industrial ink with which he produced his African-Pop Art Portraits. He now has a studio space at Good Hope Art Studios in Cape Town South Africa.

Marlise Keith

Marlise Keith is a South African artist working in ink, pencil and acrylics on canvas, board and glass (reverse glass painting). People, surroundings and aspects of her personal life influence her work, which can be found in a number of international collections in South Africa, America, Britain, Germany and Sweden.

Lindile Magunya

Magunya’s works represent a combination of contrasts; scrap metal against delicate painted surfaces, lights against dark shadows, moving figures against still lives. He uses painting as a cathartic method of communicating and relieving his frustrations with contemporary society.

Ricky Ayanda Dyaloyi

Born in Cape Town on the 8th August 1974 Dyaloyi is surely one of South Africa's most promising young painters. Drawn to art as a young boy drawing and sketching anything and everything, he attended art classes for two to three hours everyday after school. Today, aged 30, his restrained palette could be that of a man twice his age and experience.

Trasi Henen

Trasi Henen is a South African artist who works in painting, printmaking and mixed media. She was born in Johannesburg in 1981 and studied at the University of the Witwatersrand, where she received a BA Fine Arts Honours degree.  In 2002 and 2003 she was awarded the Ashley Radmore Painter Prize at the University of the Witwatersrand and, in 2003, the Herbert Evans Painter Prize.