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.
Chapter One
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My Happy Place, my Art Studio
My studio is my happy place, I invite you for a quick visit in my attic studio.
Fishes in my Art
Fishes make their appearances on my canvasses and other objects often, mostly uninvited but not unwelcome at all, as I love their symbolism.
For me, they symbolize so much, but, above all, adaptability and transformation.
August: Women’s month
August is the month for women. Love yourself, embrace yourself.
Winged Art
It is so weird that Wings have a way of finding their way into my art! I wonder why!?
I Present: My Pet Paintings
If you are like me and your pets play a big role in your life, you might enjoy my pet paintings.
Lock down Redecorating – 10 Kick Ass Ideas
Now is the time to beautify your home and love it more than ever before. The current Corona lockdown means that most of us are spending a crazy amount of time at home,...
Rather than turning the page, it’s much easier to just throw the book away.
I just have to start with this quote: This quote by Anthony Liccione appeals to me big time in this stage of my life! "Rather than turn the page, it's much easier to just throw...
Time to rewrite your reality…
All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that: This quote by Baltasar Gracian is so true. I want to share a few of my recent time paintings...
Be more creative as an artist
"The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising and gave to it neither the power nor...
I feel that new beginnings is crawling up to me. I wish it was as easy as 1, 2, 3 to break out and to break through!
You are an Eagle in a Budgie cage, you have to break out and spread your wings and fly... I am on the merge of something new in my life, I cannot say what, as I don't know...
It is so that artists have shown through the hands the feelings they wished to represent. My Hands, Artist Hands
Thank you for my hands: We take our hands for granted, our hands do so much more than we realize. I felt gratitude come over me… gratitude for my hands and everything they...
Only 16 years old and this young artist is already an avid art collector!
My youngest client: Kabous de Wet I'm so impressed with one of my youngest clients. At the age of 16 he already owns a collection of art that will make any collector jealous!! Me...
Objects Transformed into Works of Art
Ordinary objects become canvas when it crosses my path. I use "ingredients" salvaged from scrapyards and pawnshops. Sometimes my process is painful to watch as I have to...
Just look at this! Odd Looking Tree captured my world as an artist perfectly for me, Mariaan.
Almost a year ago Rian did a marketing video for me for my first ever one-man exhibition in Bloemfontein at Kotze Art Gallery The video was very specific for the gallery...
Planning 101 with my artist sister, Hanlie Kotze
Phase 1 - Planning: My artist sister Hanlie Kotze and I are in the process to start a product range together. For a while now we try out a few items and we played around...
Kobus Kotze at KKNK
I am so proud of my dad, at age 80, Kobus is the festival artist together with Anny Maddock, a well-known artist from Western Cape. You will find Kobus behind his easel at my...
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning.
Displace: A new series: I have been playing around with options in my mind for a new body of work. I need a specific series to work towards as I am very scatter-minded and...