Avhashoni is an inspiring soft spoken, well read and well travelled man. He draws from all this experience to create beautiful art in many different mediums such as oil painting, sculpture, etching, collage and photography. His curiosity and hunger for learning has created a versatility and proficiency in a multitude of mediums out of him. His work can best be described as an exploration of medium and awareness, a transfiguration in time and space.

The works of Matsemela Manaka had a heavy influence in inspiring his thirst for life and drive to pursue his passion of being an artist. Ingwabele Madingwane, a protest activist and poet, The Ghetto Voice, with his poem “Mother Spirit” was also great inspiration to Avhashoni. Mainganye has been writing poetry over the years is now considering publishing a book. “I need to make time to sort them out. They are all over the place.” he complains. “I find myself writing on whatever surface is available to me at any particular time.” Avhashoni uses the microcosm of his immediate surroundings to make macrocosmic comments, most poetically, on wider social issues.

Avhashoni Mainganye is currently teaching art students in the Limpopo. Now and then He organizes exhibitions for the students where the fourth years can get a chance to exhibit their works alongside his own. He has been running the school in such a way that we cover the basics of art and hopes to get more artists with skills to come to his school and pass on these skills to the students.

On the challenges of art as a means to leave, Avhashoni says “Life and all it offers keeps me motivated and I believe that if one has belief in oneself and one never gives up then one can achieve success in whatever one chooses, even in the world of art.”

His artworks will serve as a mirror of the life, culture and values embraced by our generation for decades to come. One of his recent works, Mainganye's Daughters of the Earth etching project reflects a dominant matriarchal presence in African cultures. While some of his wooden sculptures have a look of rough spontaneity and exhibit a refreshing energy; their content is intended to be grasped intuitively by a viewer in a state free of structured thinking.