Red Rose Acrylic on canvas with palette knife 40cm X 40cm Occasionally I start a painting, and I become disheartened with the direction the painting is taking, and I abandon it. This particular painting has been waiting 3 years for me to complete! I had this plan of doing a group of flowers, all the…
Tank Puppies
For the last year or so I have been raising funds to assist with protection and saving of our Rhino. Initially as a guesthouse we supported local anti-poaching units, but I wanted to take this further. As an artist living in a guesthouse I have access to a large amount of international tourists who stay…
Lockdown Lunacy!
View from the roof of the guesthouse during lockdown. I have always been a proactive person. I’m a fixer, and a doer, and Lockdown has rendered me powerless with regards to fixing its cause, or doing anything about it considering we are in the tourism industry and our business consists of 95% international tourism. Other…
Five Fauve rhino’s
A friend referred to these paintings as Fauve. I didn’t think about it like that at the time but they are. Especially if you look at the definition of what Fauvism is. “Fauvism is the style of les Fauves, a group of early twentieth-century modern artists, whose works emphasized painterly qualities, and strong colour over…
At the dawn of yet another New Year….
The year has flown by, so much so I am reeling at the idea tomorrow I sign my art with the date 2020! As the last day of 2019 dawns I would like to wish you all a happy & prosperous New Year. 2019 has been a challenging year on many levels for our family…
Potty about Rhino
More rhino paintings….. Available for sale Acrylic on canvas 20 X 20 cm World wide shipping available Please support this worthy cause, sales generated from the paintings of rhino go directly to raising funds and awareness regarding the plight of the rhino. If you would like to know more about this fundraiser please do not…
The plight of the rhino
As I am sure most of you who know me and follow my blog know how near and dear rhinos are to me. Earlier this year I made a commitment to donate all profits from the sales of my rhino paintings and prints to the preservation and protection of our rhino. In August of 2019…
A Big Black Rhinoceros
As I am sure you have gathered by now the rhino is my favourite of all the living creatures. Living where we do I am fortunate enough to be able to see them as often as I want. Sadly the plight of the rhino has become extreme with poachers steadily destroying any chance of this…
Aloes
The Hluhluwe Imfolozi Park is just an hour from St Lucia. In that short hour one travels from subtropical dune forest to the Hluhluwe region, which has hilly topography where altitudes range from 80 to 540 metres above sea level. The high ridges support coastal scarp forests, with valley bushveld at lower levels. The north of…
Fabulous Fuchsia
I love the glorious tangles of multicoloured flowers that fill a fuchsia bush. Another one of my favourite flowers, (and I have many) that unfortunately does not like to grow in our sub-tropical climate. Their buds form in pairs, and their flowers, once opened, have interesting and unusual shapes. This particular variety – Ballerina Blau,…
Moth orchid
Most of us know the Phalaenopsis orchid as the moth orchid because they look like moths in flight. What I find incredible is there is fossil evidence that these orchids were around when the dinosaurs roamed the planet, and we now happily buy them from the local Woolies or garden nursery as houseplants that are…
A bowl of lemons
When making a whistle stop tour to visit our son in Cape Town I of course had to go and visit some art shops. Sadly nothing quite compares to that huge craft store in Dubai called Creative Minds… I am going to have to make peace with more modest art stores here in SA. Finding…
artbyeileen 