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The Buffalo Visit.
How fortunate to find two Buffalo wandering on our farm, a perfect opportunity to capture them in photographs and in paint !
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Karoo farm gate
A little karoo farm landscape with an old gate.
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The October 2016 Exhibition in Burgersdorp.
My first month-long Painting Exhibition took place in Burgersdorp’s new House of Art Gallery in October 2016.
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The Road Ahead
“The Road Ahead” is always worth recording as a memory of the adventure of wonderful road trips of discovery through our beautiful country.
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Van Wyk’s Vlei Donkey Cart.
Passing through Van Wyk’s Vlei in 2015, we saw this delightful donkey cart, that I just had to paint !
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EDM 2016, The Everyday in May Challenge.
This is my second EDM ( Everyday in May challenge ) that is 31 paintings in 31 days ! I enjoyed the journey last year, and managed to finish them all this year too. It is a great way to get going with watercolour sketching or journalling. Lots of disciplined practice.
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Grootevallei
This view of the wide Grootevallei that neighbours onto our farm, Silvermere, was my first order for 2016.
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Aloes, colour in the winter.
I have always loved the brilliant reds and oranges of the flowering Aloe Ferox in winter.
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Our July 2015 Trans-Karoo trip. -Paintings, part one.
The first collection of a series of watercolours, inspired by our July 2015 trans-karoo trip.
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Just for something quite different, – A seascape.
Contemplating the sea is soothing , as this drought drags on.
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Windmills of the Karoo
When windmills propel gently through the breezes in lazy rotations, or spin frenetically facing into the strong winds that sweep across the karoo plains, I am often mesmerized by them. They knit together the vast expanses of earth and sky, in perfect stately harmony. Like elegant sentinels, windmills tower over the vast expanses of veld […]
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The Every-Day-In-May Challenge, 2015
The discipline of sketching a new picture every day re-ignited my love of painting. This EDM was much more enjoyable than I ever thought it would be.