I love flowers, I have ever since I was a toddler. One of my first memories was of me plucking my mothers magnificent dahlia’s off at the neck. I couldn’t have been more than 3. I even remember the colour like it was yesterday…. It was a deep, dark almost purple cabernet colour and I…
Studio Doggie
For the last 16 years and 10 months our family has shared our lives with our faithful companion and four legged fury family member known as Mr Pepper. He is spoiled, well travelled, entitled, loves biltong and droewors and is absolutely devoted to his humans, especially his absent childhood companion. We are in-turn devoted to…
Painterly palette
My work the last while has been moving in a more painterly direction relying more on colour, texture and stroke to express form. Using a palette knife and colour shapers have made this a natural progression in my work. Detail now needs to be simplified, and alternative solutions found to creating shape rather than using…
My blue period…
Jar #1 Acrylic on canvas 30 X 42 cm Blue and white is one of those classic combinations that I will never tire of. My passion for collecting dragons led me too illustrative ceramics where dragons are found curling around and leaping from the beautifully illustrated jars. Most of the Far Eastern ceramics, especially the…
Delft and Dutch irises
Flowers remain a passion as do blue and white jugs, ginger jars and temple jars. This beautiful blue and white jug was begging for an arrangement of Dutch Irises. Paint was also thickly applied with various shaped palette knives to create a loose impression of what I was seeing before me. Much like a flower…
A cascade of Spring
As much as I hate the heat of summer I love the spring and summer flowers. (I am a notorious winter, cold weather lover and find myself energised by low, dark skies, pouring rain, and freezing cold). The nice thing about living in Zululand is our summers, though hot and humid have a high rainfall,…
Cosmos fields
Before we were married Phil and I drove up to St Lucia (in KZN) from Cape Town over the Easter Weekend in April of 1989. We drove through the Free State and it was one of those unforgettable experiences that will remain forever etched in my mind. All I could see was sandstone mountains, flaming…
Flaming sunflowers
Sunflowers always make me think of slightly shaggy, sloppily dressed flowers with a bonhomie and lackadaisical attitude as their faces follow the sun across the horizon in a worshipful gaze. They even look the part with their haphazard bright yellow petals radiating out from a dark burnt umber heart. Acrylic on canvas 40 X 40…
Magnolias, ikebana and vessels
Flowers have had a huge influence in my life, I’m sure its why, (besides the fact that I love all things flower) they are such a dominant theme in my artwork. My father was a horticulturist, my mother a florist, and as a result we always had flowers in our home and a beautiful garden…
Delft apricots
Blue is a colour that resonates with me. I love it. I love other colours too, red would be one, but blue is one of those versatile colours that you can incorporate in any kind of design with most colours and it will just work. It’s a calming colour, I even painted some of the…
A vase of spring
Spring daffodils Acrylic on canvas sheet (application with a palette knife only) 30 X 42 cm I’m not a huge fan of summer, especially here in Zululand where the summers are hot, humid and sticky! Im a Winter person, but I love flowers of all seasons and how each flower and smell is unique to…
Lockdown quick studies…
Lockdown has given me much opportunity for creativity, but at the same time there have been many projects that have been put on the back burner due to a lack of enough time in a day. Now that we have the time I have to divide myself between my painting and those back-burner DIY projects….
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