Acrylic on canvas board 40 X 30 cm Painted only with a palette knife The King Protea – one of my favourite proteas from the protea family. It is widely distributed in the southwestern and southern parts of South Africa in the fynbos region and looks so striking in flower arrangements, or in the garden. My father was a horticulturist…
Bramble Rose
Acrylic on stretched canvas 50 X 76 X 2 cm As you all know I love painting flowers and I especially love single petaled climbing roses that grow up the sides of buildings or over garden fences in a wild frenzy of abundance. Their flowers are simple and their fragrance gorgeous.
Nude study
Acrylic on stretched canvas frame 60 X 60 X 4 cm At one stage I used to sketch and paint a lot of nudes. Painting nudes can be a bit daunting and I have always struggled with getting the angle and proportion of the head correct. Now no longer in the Middle East where one…
Sunflower
Sunflowers are the happiest of flowers and in this piece I wanted their vibrance and movement to be the centre of the painting rather than a completely realistic painting of a sunflower. All the use of primary colours, brush strokes, and palette knife markings have been applied to symbolise a dancing sunflower with its head…
St Olga; The most unsaintly of Saints!
Though a saint in both the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, Olga of Kiev gives the impression of being as unsaintly as one woman could possibly be. She’s one of the most vicious and vengeful rulers in the history of the Kievan Rus’ – the principality that would eventually give birth to modern…
Toad of toad hall…
My Mother grew up with Kenneth Grahame’s famous novel The Wind in the Willows, and in turn so did we. I still have the most beautiful illustrated copy of this incredible book. I am also convinced it was from this very book that my mother’s obsession and fascination with all things frog began. If you…
The Rhinoceros tale
How the rhinoceros got his skin is from the collection “The just So Stories for Little Children”. A wonderful collection of stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling, a collection of stories I remember being read to by my grandmother when she came to visit. The book is among Kipling’s best known works, and one I…
A Crash of Rhino’s
I love rhino’s! In spite of their large and intimidating stature they are so vulnerable and gentle, and extremely sensitive to their environment. Very gentle giants! Rhinos are one of the largest land mammals alive after Elephants. They have existed on Earth for over 50 million years and once roamed through North America and Europe…
A piggy pair
This 30 X 30 cm deep edge canvas brings my pig series to an end… For now at any rate.
Three little pigs…
I love pigs! I would love a pig, but for now that want is on hold. In the meantime, till the time is right I paint piggy’s… Pigs may be indiscriminate eaters, but they are also highly intelligent and incredibly social animals. Highly trainable and can learn at a much faster rate than dogs. Pig behaviour…
Christmas VDM style
I love the Christmas tradition and how our family comes together over Christmas time. As expatriates we never had the pleasure of celebrating Christmas in our home country with dear friends and family. Living in foreign countries we adopted all sorts of other countries traditions for Christmas and created our own unique and rather eclectic…
Pigs & Bunny Rabbits
I am currently busy with a series of animals. Originally commissioned for a little girls bedroom modelled in the French country style. The room incorporated a lot of the elements of the French country design – ruffles, distressed woodwork, mixed patterns, with a few vibrant colours as accents but mostly all very subdued hues. Once…
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