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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 and exhibition marketing […]
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 […]
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 get […]
Mannequin – Lady Labyrinth
Lady Labyrinth (above) was a lovely project to jump-start my year with. Labyrinths Labyrinths: The author of the book: Lunch with a Dragonfly by the psychiatrist Levern Mountany, whom has a Labyrinth at her practice. Click on the […]
My Bunny Paintings
Up for “adoption”: “Flutter-Bunny” 76x92cm R10500 And if you thought this little bunny is small… […]
The Bumble Bee and the Mannequin – interconnection of everything
An unexpected treasure found! Not “found” actually, but given to me, thank you Belinda and Adriaan! […]
Winds of change
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 […]