Born 1968 in Alberton, South Africa
Lives & works in the Kalahari Desert
Art is music in colour. At times it is poetry at others... silence.
I seek to express the grace of the quiet musing moment, the inner-dialogues and conversations with nature that occur within the seasons, emotions, experiences and tides of life.
For me, the inspiration and the muse is the endlessness – the interconnection between all things; people, places - our urban and rural collectiveness. I do not think that inspiration is something that we find within, but rather something that we dip into… like diving into a river or an ocean, falling into a road, walking in a field, a forest. All nature is conversation and provides us with clues into our own inner workings and or me it is often my redemption.
I choose through my art to abandon myself to something that is greater than I. I walk into a landscape and the white noise of the wind brings about the feeling of being absorbed into the air where I no longer know where exactly I end and where nature begins… but that I am part of it all and that my presence in that moment is destined. Somehow my voice becomes insignificant and the truest songs of me echo in the ‘un-silence’.
My process is to be in the presence of my subject, writing down the thoughts that come as well as preliminary studies in ink and pastels before the final work begins. The final stages of my expression take their cue from these combined preliminary references and I seek to capture the essence of those conversations and my personal reactions to the subject.
I work in silence but certain sounds and music inspire me and the process of applying brush to canvas becomes a rhythmic and therapeutic process of dialogue to relay my experience back to the subject.
I hear colours as sound and certain sounds are colours to me. I create art to make visual these songs so that the essence of that moment’s conversation can be communicated.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Self-taught artist
Solo Exhibitions
2024
June_Pondok Paleis_ Tina Skukan Gallery Pretoria, Gauteng South Africa
March_ Sonderlinge_ Johann Van Heerden Art and Gallery Pretoria, Gauteng South Africa
2023
August_My Hart, Woestyn_ Johann Van Heerden Art and Gallery Pretoria, Gauteng South Africa
2022
May_Remnants of Remembered Storms_ Tina Skukan Gallery, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
2020
October_Emergence_Tina Skukan Gallery, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
February_Heartlands_ Johann Van Heerden Art and Gallery Pretoria, Gauteng South Africa
2019
June_In Visibility_The Henry George Gallery, Parkhurst, Gauteng South Africa
June_I walk with trees_The Tina Skukan Gallery, Pretoria, Gauteng South Africa
March_Soulitude_ Johann Van Heerden Art and Gallery, Garstfontein, Gauteng South Africa
2018
December_Friendscapes_The Henry George Gallery, Parkhurst, Gauteng, South Africa
2017
October_ The Ways to Summer_The Tina Skukan Gallery, Pretoria, Gauteng South Africa
March_In Places Deep_The Henry George Gallery, Parkhurst, Gauteng South Africa
January_Visitation_The Johann Van Heerden Art and Gallery, Garstfontein, Gauteng South Africa
2014
June_The landscapes of my mind_Art Eye Gallery_Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa
2012
The Orison Series_The Reyn Studio, Randburg, Gauteng South Africa
2011
Shades of Red Series_The Reyn Studio, Randburg, Gauteng South Africa
2010
Journey to Light Exhibition_Slow Lounge in the City Sandton, Gauteng South Africa
2003
Canto Exhibition_MAC’s (Midlands Arts and Crafts Society Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
2001
Soliloquy_Etchings Art Gallery, Durban KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
1998
Shades and Shadows_African Window Museum Pretoria, Gauteng South Africa
Group Exhibitions and Gallery Representation
2024
Imvuko Gallery Kruger National Park
2017
JVH Gallery – Postcards from the edge
Trent Gallery - The One Book
Art.b Gallery - Vice Versa
Artb Gallery - Tiny Treasures
2016
Art Eye Gallery - The Art of Luxury -The Saxon
2011 - 2014
Art Eye Gallery -The Studio Kalk Bay Mini Masterpieces Art Eye Gallery 50 Shades Youngblood Cape Town Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Altrincham London - Art with a Heart 80 Artists around the world
Artslink - 3 Artists Randburg
2001-2019
Etchings Art Gallery Durban KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
Artist Residencies
2015 - Little Switzerland
2015 - Art Eye The Studio
Public Collections
African Window Museum – The Reapers
Polokwane Art Museum - Soliloquy
Author Publications
2024- Return to Modjadji Baobab Sketchbook 2017
2024-Dullstroom Sketchbook 2018
2014 - Soliloquy
2014 - The Secret
Donations
Ubuntu Mission The Journey to light series of 13 artworks
Art with a Heart Altrincham 10 artworks - 80 artists around the world
Rumours of Rain 1 artwork - African Childrens feeding scheme