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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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…
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…
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…
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 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…
Quick “sketches”
Ive been doing some quick painting “sketches” in between some large commission work. I find doing something quick and unrelated without the pressure of “delivering the goods”a bit of a palette cleanser. This break between meals so to speak allows me to go onto the next project refreshed, and not still dwelling on a recently…
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