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,…
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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…
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….
Red Rose
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…
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…
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