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Acrylic and Repurposed Plastic Water Bottle Butterflies on Canvas 80cmx110cm
Available $3,800.00
An abstract composition in blues, yellows, orange and turquoise across the canvas.
Mark-making, a flowing rhythm directly applied to the back of the repurposed plastic water bottle butterflies using plant material to enhance the randomness.
The bare white canvas, a glimmer through the translucent butterflies, clarifying colour


Acrylic on Canvas 80cmx110cm
Commissioned painting for Di


Official Selection ArtboxProjects
New York City Art Expo 2023

Acrylic and Recycled Water Bottle Hearts on Canvas 60cmx60cm
Available $2 300.00
The concept piece ‘Always, In All Ways’ 60cmx60cm, Acrylic and Recycled Plastic Water Bottle Hearts on Canvas, a tad wayward. I started from the centre of the canvas to ensure geometric balance, but didn’t allow for the ‘bend’ in the plastic that pushes everything off-centre. Visually, it has the impact with its neon-pink hearts, but it still feels underwhelming.
Perhaps, 4 equally sized canvases? A final work 1,2mx1,2m with 900 hearts. I will have to make the same measurement error in a mirror-image. Disaster waiting!
Drawing inspiration from Yayoi Kusama’s repeating patterns. The neon pink, a reflection on healing after a traumatic few years. In my case the freshly healed skin after my staircase fall on Christmas Day that left me in ICU.



Acrylic and Recycled Water Bottle Butterflies on Canvas 110cmx74cm
Available $3 800.00
Influenced by Kandinsky’s ‘Blue Rider’ paintings, a colourful abstract painting in pinks, blues, and yellows on a dark grey background
Painted in acrylic paint on 280 hand-cut recycled plastic water bottle butterflies
Uncontrolled mark-making of the paint on the plastic butterflies using salt-bush. Applying the paint to the back of the plastic butterflies means that the image of the final painting is the reverse of the gestural marks, which reinforces this uncontrollability.
The butterflies are fixed to the canvas in a geometric gris that takes its influence from the Abstract Expressionist artist, Agnes Martin and the plastic butterflies echo her Bricolage Works.



Acrylic and Recycled Water Bottle Butterflies on Canvas 150cmx100cm
Available $7 800.00
An abstract, landscape painting of the cherry blossoms reflected in the sun-dappled waters of the Villa Borghese gardens, Rome.
Painted in acrylic paint on 600 hand-cut recycled plastic water bottle butterflies, pinks, greens and blues dominate the painting.
Uncontrolled mark-making of the paint on the plastic butterflies using salt-bush. Applying the paint to the back of the plastic butterflies means that the image of the final painting is the reverse of the gestural marks, which reinforces this uncontrollability.
The butterflies are fixed to the canvas in a geometric gris that takes its influence from the Abstract Expressionist artist, Agnes Martin and the plastic butterflies echo her Bricolage Works.

Acrylic on Canvas 200cmx70cm
Available $3 700.00
An abstract painting using leftover colours on the pallet and the end of each days painting of the ‘Lotus 2’ painting


Oil, Acrylic and Recycled Plastic Water-bottle
Butterflies on Canvas 100cmx100cm
SOLD
An abstract seascape painting in acrylic, oil and recycled plastic water bottle butterflies on canvas of Kei River Mouth and the prominent Castle Rock.
Acrylic on Canvas 230cmx115cm
Available $8700.00
A collection of 32 (20cmx20cm) paintings of wild animals from Addo Elephant Park.
Each small work its own character.
A minimalistic approach, the line-art technique has its roots in San rock-art, which can be found in caves in the Zuurberg Mountains, at the foot of which lies the Nyathi rest camp. While fine-line rock-art, is brush-painted. Khoekhoen and Bantu-speaker rock-art is finger-painted. I’m blurring this technical distinction, using my fingers to creat the line-art.

Acrylic on 425 grm paper on canvas 18cmx29cm
Available $800.00
With inspiration from the paintings of Alexander Rose-Innes, the street leading up from the deli, with the mosque on the right.
I was conscious of respecting the privacy of the residents, but managed to include a dashing man in his beret and white slacks. So different to the traditional Muslim dress associated with Bo-Kaap.

Oil on canvas 76cmx102cm
SOLD
Blossoms on the tree outside the luxurious room at Nyati, Addo Elephant Park.
Fireflies and stars. The distance hoot of owls. The melody of the Night Jar. Silence. The hills, distance shadows. The great elephants, at one with the dark.

Acrylic and Recycled Water Bottle Butterflies on canvas 60cmx50cm
$2,200.00
The collective noun for butterflies is ‘kaleidoscope’, which seemed appropriate for the light reflections off the various facets of the plastic water bottle butterflies

Oil on canvas 60cmx90cm
$2,800.00
Line Art, painting with my finger painting technique challenging.
My latest interpretation using my fingers to form ridges of white paint, creating lines on a white background.
Light, the only differentiating factor.


Acrylic on canvas 60cmx90cm
SOLD
At this time of the 3rd Covid wave, inspiration for the painting coming from the mind-shift to ‘Not hide from the storm, but learn to dance in the rain.’ Based on a photo taken in Central Park.
During my time in New York City, I admired the artists painting various aspects of Central Park. Something, I never did. Perhaps lacking the confidence to ‘Just Paint’!
The towers are the first twin towers historic buildings in New York City, the San Remo located at 174 Central Park West, between West 74th street and West 75th street.
Finally sorted the fresh spring green colours. A mixture of Cadmium Yellow Light and Chromium Oxide Green. Bringing life to the painting with a touch of Quinacidone Rose that Cézanne used used to ‘transform nature’.


Acrylic and recycled plastic water bottles on canvas 150cmx200cm
$8,750.00
Drawing inspiration from the Abstract Impressionist painter, Joan Mitchell and the painting I did of Lotus flowers in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Joan Mitchell’s work, a bridge between Abstract Expressionist and Action painters. Rooted in her emotional response to nature through memories, orchestrating her paintings in energy, mood and emotion.
Collisions of colour that are exuberant against the natural, white areas.
Uncontrollable Saltbush mark-making on the butterflies. My interpretation of the Abstract Expressionists.


Oil on Italian Linen 35cmx50cm
$1,750.00
Increased the tonal contrast of the painting, strengthening the white areas and saturating some of the black bits. Trying hard not to overwork the painting or loose the spontaneous mark-making.

Oil on Canvas 100cmx100cm
Commissioned Artwork
Beach walk. Or rather, dog play.
Colours of the sea, incredible, with small fish playing in the waves. Gave me the chance to reflect on my seascape painting, and sort a few things with the waves that were bothering me


Acrylic and recycled plastic water bottles on canvas 100cmx100cm
$5,400.00
Renosterveld
Vegetation, unique to the Western Cape in South Africa, and sits with Fynbos as part of the Cape Floral Kingdom. With its profusion of bulbs, the dull grey summer look is transformed into a collidoscope of colour in late winter and early spring.
An abstract representation of the critically endangered Moraea Comtonii



Acrylic and recycled plastic water bottles on canvas 100cmx100cm
(Available as a Commissioned Work)
White on White
White-on-White is acrylic and recycled plastic water bottle butterflies on 100cmx100cm canvas. It is a response to Michele Nigrini’s Colour Symphony.
White-on-White. Shadows. Pure. Complete. Perfection.
Is white an equal balance of all colours in the spectrum, or the absence of colour? White, full of meaning and life.
Butterflies. Recycled plastic water bottles. Sustainable. The growing urgency to protect our natural heritage. A tribute to the garden influences in Nigrini’s works. There are 395 butterflies. one for each of her panels.
Aesthetic bands of equal width, alternate matt and gloss white, taking inspiration from the American Abstract Minimalist Painter, Agnes Martin. Martin’s hand-drawn graphite lines, a reflection of the black lines in the panels of ‘Colour Symphony’. My painting technique of using my fingers, as much part of the imperfections that characterises Agnes Martin’s work.
The differences in the butterflies are due to the part of the plastic water bottle they come from. Within the work, there is an added dimension that responds to the ‘marks’ in Michele Nigrini’s panels.
Using salt bush cuttings for the application technique, and inspired by the pincushion protea that are in full bloom in this part of the Garden Route, a pincushion protea design in ultra-violet paint, is hidden in the butterflies. In a spectrum beyond what we can normally see.
‘We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.’
Maya Angelou



Deurmekaar Weskus
Oil on canvas 50cmx50cm
Commissioned Portrait
My portrait commission, ‘Deurmekaar Weskus’ is a Finalist at the 6th International Figures&Faces Exhibition.
Jury selection from 603 entries from around the world.
“You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and unique figure and still keep it living and real.”~Edouard Manet


Brothers
Acrylic on canvas 150cmx150cm
SOLD
Kgalagadi.
Known for its brilliant cat sightings (lion, cheetah, and even leopard), mainly because of the two broad riverbeds where all the antelope and buck hang out, and it’s all pretty visible to the roads. The roads through Kgalagadi follow these two riverbeds, south to north. Also, the territory is conducive to long sprints for the cheetah.
These cubs were spotted in the northern part of Kgalagadi, along the Nossob riverbed. Seated low in the grasses, with only their heads popping up. If they’d lain down, they’d have disappeared from sight. Their mother was sitting a little way away, keeping check on them.

Kids in the rain
Acrylic on canvas 60cmx50cm
SOLD
Khartoum, Sudan.
Children reveling in the uniqueness of a rain shower.
I wanted to capture the happiness of celebrating the small stuff. Particularly at this time of disquiet and upheaval.
The rich colours of Cyan.
Apparently, Michelangelo, his first painting “The Holy Family” when he was 28 years old used three colors, Yellow, Cyan, and Magenta. The cyan could have been Azurite, Blue Vitriol or Pompeian Blue Lake, a Ferris-cyan, Indigo, or Bremen Blue or a native Cobalt Blue that had a cyan color. It wasn’t Ultramarine Blue.

Finalist International Art-in-Isolation Exhibition
Oil on canvas and paper 100cmx150cm
$7,500


