My paintings hatch… bit by bit, starting as a little vague idea in my head, sometimes I walk with the possibility of an image for days, weeks, even months before it gets to a point of breaking through, even then, I usually do not know precisely where the image will end up once I put […]
What an honor! Exhibiting with Daniel Novela is such an honor. My first memories of this humble guy: I moved to Klerksdorp in 1997 and I always saw this guy sitting with his beautiful small paintings, displayed on the paving in front of the Game shop. Needless to say, I followed his career with fascination […]
“Captured Moments” “Because every picture has a […]
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 […]