My Paintings and Doodles

Flower Girl - Acrylic on Board
(750x1100mm)

Jeanine

Marique

Andre

Vulnerability Study I

Vulnerability Study II

Casablanca

Desolation - Pencil

The Mandolin Soul
Pencil

Into the Light

The Cradle - Pencil

Arniston 
(Acrylic)
This doodle was inspired by special memories of Arniston, a quaint fishing village on the West Coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa. There is an innocence about Arniston and the way of life in the fishing villages there that changes your perspective on what is important. The distortion in perspective is intentional and expresses this.

A Free State Good Morning

Zentangle 

(Charcoal  and Ink)

Koekemakranka!

(Ink on Canvas)

Time Flies

(Ink and Acrylic)

Liquid Timber

(acrylic on canvas)

Because sometimes the hardest wood has the softest core....

Humpty Dumpty
(acrylic on canvas)
There are few things more complicated than the heart.  Once it has been bound with love for someone, it is very difficult to put back together again.

Sangoma Dolls

(acrylic on canvas)

Nachtmuzik

Nature's Optimists

It is impossible to feel sad painting sunflowers. Their sunny happy feel-goodness rubs off on 

me and gets into my skin with the cadmium yellow. ;0)

Sagel (11 Months)

(Coloured Pencil on Board)

The Snake Dance

(acrylic on canvas)

The Venda culture is built on a vibrant mythical belief system, and water is an important theme, believing lakes and rivers to be sacred, and that rains are controlled by the Python God. One of the most sacred sites of the Venda is Lake Fundudzi. Here annually the Domba Python Dance is held, an offering of beer is poured into the lake, and young maidens, as the final stage of their initiation into womanhood, line up in single file and dance in long winding lines, like a snake. The Domba is important to secure good rains for the following season.

A Passionate Thought

(coloured pencil on board)

A Heart Like Namaqualand

(Acrylic on Canvas)

I saw a Gazania the other day and it reminded me of Namaqualand. Namaqualand is a very arid region of South Africa and Namibia.  It is quite popular with both local and international tourists during early springtime, when for a short period this normally arid area becomes covered with a kaleidoscope of colour during the flowering season. This is known throughout South Africa as the Namaqualand daisy season, when orange and white daisies, as well as hundreds of other flowering species, spring up from a previously barren landscape. Aside from a sudden burst of life - Namaqualand is very rich in alluvial diamonds. A part of Little Namaqualand, known as the Richtersveld, is a national park and a World Heritage Site.  What this represents for me is regeneration and beauty that blooms in the most desolate wasteland. All it takes is a second glance to recognise real beauty in its latent form.  A heart like Namaqualand has many hidden treasures if you bother to look deeper.

Sunflower Chakra 
(acrylic on canvas)
It's all in the mind...

Masked Lovers
"there is no art to find the mind's construction in the face...." - Shakespeare

Nostalgia

The heart leaps when it reminisces in happy dreams...

Africa's YinYang

The Vagabond Heart

It's all in the brogue

Ndebele Beauties

Zebras - Acrylic on Board
(750x1100mm)

The Soul Alchemist