A pig who was saved from slaughter at the eleventh hour has becoming a world-renowned artist.
Pigcasso, as she is now known, was rescued with her sister Rosie from a South African slaughterhouse when she was just two months old.
She noticed a young Pigcasso picking up workman’s paint brushes in her mouth and decided to give her a canvas.
Now at just 21-months-old, she is believed to be the world’s only painting pig and has sold her artwork for as much as £1,700.
Despite selling 44 paintings across the UK, USA, South Korea and Malaysia, Ms Lefson says in many ways Pigcasso is just a regular pig.
She told The Times: ‘She’s not a diva and it hasn’t all gone to her head. She’s still very humble. All she wants to do is eat, sleep and paint.’
Pigcasso even launched her own exhibition – Oink – on Cape Town’s Victoria and Albert Waterfront last month.
It is due to open at a central London venue next month, before moving on to Paris, Berlin and Amsterdam.
Her most expensive piece was called Brexit and featured a rough representation of the word in the colours of the British flag.
It sold to a Dutch collector for £1,730, after her debut piece was snapped up by a New York lawyer visiting her farm.
She signs each canvas by dipping her snout in a mixture of beetroot juice and acrylic paint.
Her owner says she often takes inspiration from her surroundings and loves day trips to Cape Town’s iconic Table Mountain where she ‘loves getting sand between her trotters’ on the beaches below.
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