As an artist, like most other artists, I’m very scatterbrained and struggle with routine. Although a lot of people assume that artists only create, we need to establish a business. Part of our day to day`s activities is admin, marketing and keeping our websites up to date. This post is dedicated to all the mom’s out […]
Can we still say it’s a new year? January is running out and the holidays are already just a vague memory. I moved into a new studio, and have light and space and chirping birds around me after a long while of occupying uncomfortable workspaces. I decided that this year will be the year of being […]
You might think I am just an artist and that I sit and paint every day, with nothing other than paintings on my mind. Reality is, I need to think about stuff like paying bills and keeping everything together financially, all those things people with “normal” jobs, whatever normal might be… have to think about. My […]
Music – blogging, and my daughters: If possible, I would like you to click on the “Movie Soundtracks” link below and to listen to the music I am listening to while I am writing this post… I wish I had the skills to incorporate music into my posts. Movie soundtracks I sit with a glass […]
As I am busy with a pencil painting, very much like this little one here, I decided to do a blog post about all (or some of) the pencil artworks I did. My first pencil artwork: This is where the first pencil started, almost 4 years ago, a miniature little painting for an art […]
Today I want to share a few images of my playful art. I just love it to transform found objects, old furniture, in fact, anything I can lay my hands on, into Decor items and functional art I had such a great photo shoot in Rosendal in the Freestate where my artist parents, Kobus and Joe Kotze live. I took […]
I had a new blog post ready but it felt so inappropriate with all the fires in the Garden Route and the storms in the Western Cape. I stayed in Mossel Bay for 3 years, I know people affected by the devastating fires and my heart goes out to each and everyone there. All of us […]
Today I want to share three paintings of a range of paintings I am working on for an art exhibition in April at Longstreet Art; in Pretoria. The theme of the exhibition: “From broken open to breakthrough”. I got a few rugged canvases from a friend in Mossel Bay more than a year ago, I […]