My secret world
My Secret World. Sometimes it feels like I spend more time in my secret world than in the “real” world.
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
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.
A tribute to my mom, artist, Joe Kotze
With Mothers day around the corner, I want to share a bit about my mom and her art.
I had two fun-filled days painting in Stellenbosch with the well-known artist, Glendine
I was in Stellenbosch for a few days and decided to arrange a “painting-date” with my artist friend, Glendine. We had such a great time and we documented our process to share it with you.
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 […]
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.
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, some of us are so privileged to go on with our work but many people have a lot of leisure time on […]
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 the book away.” For those you who know my website, I hope you have noticed the new clean look. For […]
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 time.” Quote by Mary Oliver Be more creative: I often get the question of how I get to my ideas and also about […]
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 yet. I see, or rather feel, all the signs and I feel restless, very restless. Omens keep […]
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 do. By means of my hands, I have the privilege to convey my ideas. My hands put into practice, the ideas which […]
