WARNING: This article contains spoilers from Antiques Roadshow. An Antiques Roadshow guest could barely find the words when she discovered the value of an artwork she had almost donated to charity. The cherished BBC series made its way to Cromford Mills, Derbyshire, where expert Lawrence Hendra encountered a captivated guest in possession of a rather intriguing piece of art.
Lawrence was taken aback by an unexpected discovery at Cromford Mills, pointing out: "So of all the paintings I was not expecting to see here at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire, is a painting by an artist from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pili Pili Mulongoy." The guest explained: "I bought this painting with a job lot of other paintings and prints, I didn't want half of them so I was going to take them to a charity shop. "I had this one in my arms and I noticed that it had got a signature and could tell that it was a real painting.
"I tried to do some research about it and it's been on my wall ever since." Questioned about what specifically attracted her to the art, she expressed: "I think you love it or you hate it and it's really lovely and colourful and I love the little antelope and I can appreciate how it's painted. I paint myself and I just really love it.
" Delving deeper into the artwork's background, Lawrence elaborated: "As you can see, it's signed on the bottom right, Pili Pili and he came from a very working class family, he trained as a plumber and a builder and then he fell under guidance o.