Mr Gare emigrated to New Zealand three months ago with his Australian fiancee, Violet Grosse. Soon after they arrived in Dunedin, their first son, Sascha, was born.
"So now we've got a Botswanan, an Australian and a Kiwi in the family," he said this week.
"We came here because we wanted to explore a new life and different vegetation. It's very good air here. It releases my mind, like peace. The air has a good colour and smell.
"I like to work with colour as a means to express my inner feelings about my past experiences."
Mr Gare (33) grew up in an artistic family in the southeast village of Mochudi, where his great-grandmother was a potter, his grandmother a weaver and his mother made basketry.
"I grew up with a love of art, drawings and space. During my childhood, my late Grandma Mmaletlhokwa used to bring me drawing crayons in times of migration and apartheid when she came back for holidays from South Africa, where she worked as a maid.
"I remember well that whenever my grandmother brought those crusts from the kitchens in South Africa, she would also bring me some crayons with which I would do some drawing on paper."
When no crayons were available he would practise by making drawings in the dirt on the ground.
Mr Gare's work features in the National Museum and Gallery of Botswana, and the offices of the Botswana Auditor-general, the Botswana Defence Force and Botswana State Television.
He is now looking for a studio in Dunedin to start work on his first exhibition here.
