Phathisa comes from a numerous family of wood carvers and began carving in 2000 under the instruction of one of his older brothers. He continues the family tradition by carving our beautiful giraffes out of Jacaranda wood. He is originally from the Victoria Falls area in the north of Zimbabwe, where the rest of his family still resides in a village in the rural area surrounding the Falls. Nowadays, he resides with his own family in Chitungwiza, Harare, where he is the father of two boys and a girl.
