Flowers have been an integral part of my life and as a result my choice of subject matter and a recurring theme in my work. Even after exploring other subject matter such as landscapes, and portraiture I always returned to flowers, which are a constant in my life, and a continuous choice of subject to…
Tag: impasto
Moroccan pots masquerading as ginger jars
As an artist I have received some unusual commissions, my children being probably the main source of my more bizarre commissions. I have painted cupcakes for my daughter, Knights and Saracens on my son’s wall, headboards, and I think even a spaceship from my sons days playing Eve Online. Besides my children’s misuse of their…
Miniatures
A collection of miniatures between painting larger works Ginger jars Magnolias
Passionate about poppies
Poppies Acrylic on canvas 30 cm X 40 cm Poppies are bright, cheerful, and colourful with crinkly paper thin petals. Sadly they never last very long in a vase as cut flowers. There is always a tumble of petals and a dusting of pollen at the base of a vase of poppies, it’s their fleeting…
Summer is here
Impasto is a technique used in painting, where paint is laid on an area of the surface in very thick layers, usually thick enough that the brush or palette knife strokes are visible. Paint can also be mixed right on the canvas. When dry, impasto provides texture; the paint appears to be coming out of the canvas. Acrylic…
All things painterly…
The last while I have been trying to force myself to loosen my painting style and move in a more painterly direction. I started using a combination of palette knives and colour shapers together with a brush to force myself to stop worrying about keeping things inside the lines. Rather than relax my brushwork I…
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,…
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…
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…
Spanish Dancer prototype
I have a very large commission approaching for which I have been doing a fair amount of preparation work. I find often, while I am busy working on one project, people see the work in progress, or the finished product, and want something similar for there own home. That is exactly what happened in the…
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