Tuesday 16 August 2011

painting a polaroid: take 2

My fascination with the grey feathered friends continues..

I am currently exploring the love-hate relationship between photography and painting. Examining and experimenting with painting's capacity to revise or revisit, even enhance the capturing of a fleeting moment..



Thursday 23 June 2011

painting a polaroid





The first in a new body of work, exploring the intricate relationship between painting and photography. Entertaining the idea of capturing moments, re-introducing perspective and revisiting memory.
(Soon to be exhibited... Watch this space...)

Monday 13 June 2011

Different

Something new I am trying. A bit different from what I usually do. I like to challenge myself frequently, see things in a new light, paint something in a way I haven't painted before/in a very long time.
This is an artwork that is sentimental, a photo from my family album.


Sunday 12 June 2011

Thursday 9 June 2011

the birds

Still digging in the archives.
I find myself frequently fascinated with birds.  Swallows being my favourite fascination, but doves tend to steal my attention with their almost unnoticeable grey. 

'heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove...' Mattew 3:16





Wednesday 1 June 2011

Pieter and the painting

While I am still a busy bee, working hard on my new body of work, and thus can not show any new paintings yet, I dug into the archives. This is what I found and really have to share...

I was documenting our Final Year's Exhibition.
Truly, I am not a photographer, I am a painter. But these photo's are something special. It may just be the subject matter, or the memory, but I always smile when I look at them.
My husband (boyfriend at the time) was such a gentleman to help me clean the carpets, and I snapped these few shots of him with one of my paintings in the backgound...




And it gives a really good impression of size of my work!

Wednesday 25 May 2011

A working progress

Just a sneak peak at something I'm currently working on. A glimpse of a work in progress.




Tuesday 24 May 2011

What became of it

So, after graduation, the huge pieces of unstretched painted canvas almost became rolls of forgotten art in a storage room.
 I reworked most of the pieces, devided them into smaller panels,
stretched them, embroided, and sold. 
This is what became of it...


I was commissioned to do 2 artworks for the South African Embassy in Lesotho, along with established artists such as Diane Victor, Jan van der Merwe, Gordon Fraud.




This work, 'Blou gedagte vir Bibi Slippers', sold just 2hours after I delivered it to the gallery. The manager didn't even had the time to hang it yet.


I wanted to keep this one for myself, and it hung in my house for 2 years before I parted with it.


And this one is to remember. It remains as it were, no reworking, just stretched in three panels. My parents thought to save one. Such an excellent thought.

Two are still in the process of becoming something more...

Such a long time ago

I completed my degree in Fine Art at the University of Pretoria in 2007.
Bravely decided to specialize in painting in my Final Year, though the medium was (and still are in some circles) thought of as "outdated" in a world of contemporary art and it's endless possibilities, I loved it, and still do.






Monday 23 May 2011

for Erdmann Contemporary, a while ago...

I went to view the Beezy Baily exhibition, Icon/Iconoclast, at Everard Read this weekend, TWICE! What a treat. I am such a fan of his work.
And it made me remember,
it reminded me of this exhibition.
I was privileged to be invited to be part of a group exhibition at ErdmannContemporary in Cape Town, such an honour. Thank you Carla Erasmus (http://www.carlaerasmus.blogspot.com/). Beezy Baily also attended, and this made me proud...
'van ewigheid af'

Thursday 19 May 2011

When I started to art:

And so begins my fascination with white branches...

 'Net 'n bewegende skaduwee' I

 'Net 'n bewegende skaduwee' II

 'Where their voice is not heard' II