A busy art weekend in Gauteng
A busy art weekend in Gauteng. Pretoria – 1 Weekend- Exhibiting @ 2 Art galleries, Showroom Art Gallery and Johan van Heerden Art Gallery
6 Artists who influenced my Cloud paintings. (Surrealist and Classic input)
For years now I’ve dreamed of being able to paint realistic clouds, and now I’ve made my start, I will keep on working on my skills.
Kobus Kotzé – A short story
At 83, Kobus Kotzé celebrates 55 years as an artist with 55 paintings on exhibition.
Inspiring Road trip/Working holiday in the beautiful Western Cape
Road trip highlights fresh in my mind although December feels like a year ago. I did this trip with my youngest daughter, Jo-Marie, who was the perfect travel companion. When we hit the road, it was raining in Bloemfontein but I was blessed and had cloudy weather and no rain on the road. All the […]
Black Birds – Crows and Ravens feature in my work often over the years.
Especially the qualities of adaptability, cleverness and transformation in crows that I can associate with on a personal level.
Crows are Enigmatic and owned a mythical status across all cultures and is often seen as messengers.
Reflection on my Art journey of 2020
2021 – A NEW YEAR – A NEW STORY TO BE TOLD (Painted) At last… A new year, a new page, and in my case, yet another new town. It is 2021, 2020 might have been one of the longest, and simultaneously, in some weird way, one of the shortest years ever in my life.Nobody […]
Chapter One
The events in my life are some of my biggest inspirations for my art works. I love sharing my emotions, stories, and journey with my audience through my paintings.
My Happy Place, my Art Studio
My studio is my happy place, I invite you for a quick visit in my attic studio.
Commissioned Artworks
I get a lot of very interesting commissions, I want to share a few of the special commissions I did. Some clients become friends and the appreciation of the work I did for them is inspiring and satisfying. It is such an honour to get a little peek into people’s lives and hearts and to […]
Kyknet Ontbytsake Insert 2014
Earlier this year, Ontbytsake, a Kyknet Television journal program promoting local artists venues and tourism in South Africa, made this wonderful little insert of the gallery I had in Mossel Bay. I recently moved out of this studio, now working from home, and supplying to other accredited Art Galleries as well as to my shop in […]
This is me, where I come from, how I think.
I was born on a farm cradled by mountains in the Aliwal North district of the Eastern Cape. My father Kobus Kotze is a well-known landscape artist. The hours I spent painting with him in his art studio opened my mind to art. My mother Joe Kotze only started painting later in her life. She […]
